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Appurtenant






Appurtenant

Belonging to; pertaining to of right.

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Right
1) Sometimes it signifies a law, as when we say that natural right requires us to keep our promises, or that it commands restitution, or that it forbids murder. In our language it is seldom used in this sense. 2) It sometimes means that quality in our actions by which they are denominated just ones. This is usually denominated rectitude. 3) It is that quality in a person by which he can do certain actions, or possess certain things which belong to him by virtue of some title. In this sense, we use it when we say that a man has a right to his estate or a right to defend himself.



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Appurtenance
Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing. An attachment or appendage to something else. Used often in a real estate context where an "appurtenance" may be, for example, a right-of-way over water, which, although physically detached, is part of the legal rights of the owner of another property.

Appurtenances
In common parlance and legal acceptation, is used to signify something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to the principal thing.



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Appropriation
Ecclesiastical law The setting apart an ecclesiastical benefice, which is the general property of the church, to the perpetual and proper use of some religious house, bishop or college, dean and chapter and the like.

Approvement
1) English Criminal law. The act by which a person indicted of treason or felony, and arraigned for the same, confesses the same before any plea pleaded, and accuses others, his accomplices, of the same crime, in order to obtain his pardon. 2) English law. The inclosing of common land within the lord's waste, so as to leave egress and regress to a tenant who is a commoner.

Approver
English Criminal law. One confessing himself guilty of felony, and approving others of the same crime to save himself.

Appurtenance
Something that, although detached, stands as part of another thing. An attachment or appendage to something else. Used often in a real estate context where an "appurtenance" may be, for example, a right-of-way over water, which, although physically detached, is part of the legal rights of the owner of another property.

Appurtenances
In common parlance and legal acceptation, is used to signify something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to the principal thing.

Appurtenant

Aqua
Water. It is a rule that water belongs to the land which it covers, when it is stationary: aqua cedit solo. But the owner of running water, or of a water course, cannot stop it the inferior inheritance having a right to the flow.

Aquae ductus
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to carry water by means of pipes or conduits over or through the estate of another.

Aquae haustus
Civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to draw water from the fountain, pool, or spring of another.

Aquae immittendae
Civil law. The name of a servitude, which frequently occurs among neighbors.

Aquagium
1) A water course. 2) A toll for water.

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