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Appendant

1. Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. (Jer. Taylor)

2. Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc, which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.

Origin: f. Appendant, p. Pr. Of appendre. See Append.