Ap*pur"te*nance (?), n. [OF.
apurtenaunce, apartenance, F. appartenance, LL.
appartenentia, from L. appertinere. See Appertain.]
That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an
accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common
parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as
principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other
easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden,
or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never
pass as an appurtenance to land. Tomlins. Bouvier.
Burrill.
Globes . . . provided as appurtenances to
astronomy.
Bacon.
The structure of the eye, and of its
appurtenances.
Reid.