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Appurtenance
APPURTENANCEAnaccessoryor adjunct that is attached and incidental to something that has greater importance or value. As applied to real property, an object attached to or a right to be used with land as an incidental benefit but which is necessary to the complete use and enjoyment of the property. When a landowner has been given an easement for the passage of light and air over an adjoining lot, the easement is an appurtenance to the land. Other common appurtenances to land include barns, outhouses, fences, drainage and irrigation ditches, and rights of way. |
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"Appurtenance." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Appurtenance." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437700326.html "Appurtenance." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3437700326.html |
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ap·pur·te·nance / əˈpərtn-əns/ • n. (usu. appurtenances) an accessory or other item associated with a particular activity or style of living: all the appurtenances of luxurious travel. |
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"appurtenance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "appurtenance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-appurtenance.html "appurtenance." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-appurtenance.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "appurtenance." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "appurtenance." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-appurtenance.html T. F. HOAD. "appurtenance." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-appurtenance.html |
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appurtenance
•abeyance, conveyance, purveyance
•creance • ambience
•irradiance, radiance
•expedience, obedience
•audience
•dalliance, mésalliance
•salience
•consilience, resilience
•emollience • ebullience
•convenience, lenience, provenience
•impercipience, incipience, percipience
•variance • experience
•luxuriance, prurience
•nescience • omniscience
•insouciance • deviance
•subservience • transience
•alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science
•allowance
•annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance
•fluence, pursuance
•perpetuance • affluence • effluence
•mellifluence • confluence
•congruence • issuance • continuance
•disturbance
•attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence
•cadence
•antecedence, credence, impedance
•riddance • diffidence • confidence
•accidence • precedence • dissidence
•coincidence, incidence
•evidence
•improvidence, providence
•residence
•abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence
•correspondence, despondence
•accordance, concordance, discordance
•avoidance, voidance
•imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence
•impudence • abundance • elegance
•arrogance • extravagance
•allegiance • indigence
•counter-intelligence, intelligence
•negligence • diligence • intransigence
•exigence
•divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence
•convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence
•significance
•balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance
•parlance • repellence • semblance
•bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence
•sibilance • jubilance • vigilance
•pestilence • silence • condolence
•virulence • ambulance • crapulence
•flatulence • feculence • petulance
•opulence • fraudulence • corpulence
•succulence, truculence
•turbulence • violence • redolence
•indolence • somnolence • excellence
•insolence • nonchalance
•benevolence, malevolence
•ambivalence, equivalence
•Clemence • vehemence
•conformance, outperformance, performance
•adamance • penance • ordinance
•eminence • imminence
•dominance, prominence
•abstinence • maintenance
•continence • countenance
•sustenance
•appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence
•provenance • ordnance • repugnance
•ordonnance • immanence
•impermanence, permanence
•assonance • dissonance • consonance
•governance • resonance • threepence
•halfpence • sixpence
•comeuppance, tuppence, twopence
•clarence, transparence
•aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence
•remembrance • entrance
•Behrens, forbearance
•fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance
•abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz
•monstrance
•concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence
•encumbrance
•adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance
•assurance, durance, endurance, insurance
•exuberance, protuberance
•preponderance • transference
•deference, preference, reference
•difference • inference • conference
•sufferance • circumference
•belligerence • tolerance • ignorance
•temperance • utterance • furtherance
•irreverence, reverence, severance
•deliverance • renascence • absence
•acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence
•obeisance, Renaissance
•puissance
•impuissance, reminiscence
•beneficence, maleficence
•magnificence, munificence
•reconnaissance • concupiscence
•reticence
•licence, license
•nonsense
•nuisance, translucence
•innocence • conversance • sentience
•impatience, patience
•conscience
•repentance, sentence
•acceptance • acquaintance
•acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance
•assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence
•instance • exorbitance
•concomitance
•impenitence, penitence
•appetence
•competence, omnicompetence
•inheritance • capacitance • hesitance
•Constance • importance • potence
•conductance, inductance, reluctance
•substance • circumstance
•omnipotence • impotence
•inadvertence • grievance
•irrelevance, relevance
•connivance, contrivance
•observance • sequence • consequence
•subsequence • eloquence
•grandiloquence, magniloquence
•brilliance • poignance
•omnipresence, pleasance, presence
•complaisance • malfeasance
•incognizance, recognizance
•usance • recusance
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"appurtenance." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "appurtenance." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-appurtenance.html "appurtenance." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-appurtenance.html |
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