APPEND'ANCE,

APPEND'ANT, adjective

1. hanging to; annexed; belonging to something; attached; as, a seal appendant to a paper.

2. In law, common appendant, is a right belonging to the owners or occupiers of land, to put commonably beasts upon the lord's waste, and upon the lands of other persons within the same manor. An advowson appendant, is the right of patronage or presentation, annexed to the possession of a manor. So also a common of fishing may be appendant to a freehold.

APPEND'ANT, noun That which belongs to another thing, as incidental or subordinate to it.