APPENDANT, or Appurtenant, in Law, is understood of such things as by time of Prescription have belonged, appertained, and been joined to some other principal thing.
Thus, an Hospital may be appendant to a Manor, a Common of Fishing to a Freehold, etc. Appended Remedies, such as are outwardly applied, by hanging about the Neck. Such are divers Amulets, Necklaces, Phylacteries, etc. See AMULET. The Word comes from the Latin ad, and pendo, I hang to.
