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Appurtenant

Belonging to, accessory or incidental to; annexed or appended to. A thing is deemed to be incidental or appurtenant to land when it is by right used with the land for its benefit, as in the case of a right of way or watercourse, or a passage of light or air from across the land belonging to another.
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