Rights or privileges belonging to and passing with a property.
Appurtenances are rights, privileges or associated features belonging to a property.
In manorial records, the term could include buildings, gardens, fields, grazing rights, easements or other advantages attached to a holding.
When land was transferred, appurtenances normally passed with the property unless specifically excluded.
The word is frequently found in legal descriptions of holdings because medieval and early modern property rights often depended not only on the land itself but also on the customary rights attached to it.
See also:
Tenement
Messuage
Common Rights
Tenure
