Definition of "appendant"

appendant

/əˈpɛndənt/

adjective
comparative more appendant, superlative most appendant
1. Attached as an appendage.
2. Annexed; concomitant.
  Quotations
  As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655
3. (law) 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.
  Quotations
  the franchise of waife and stray and such like are appendant , and the king purchaseth the mannor with the appurtenances, now are the royall franchises reunited to the crowne , and not appendant to the mannor
  1628, Edw[ard] Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for the Societe of Stationers
noun
plural appendants
1. Anything attached to something else as incidental or subordinate to it.
2. (law) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.