Crossword clues for annexed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Annex \An*nex"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Annexed; p. pr. & vb. n. Annexing.] [F. annexer, fr. L. annexus, p. p. of annectere to tie or bind to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to bind.]
To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. ``He annexed a codicil to a will.''
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To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
He annexed a province to his kingdom.
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To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
Syn: To add; append; affix; unite; coalesce. See Add.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: annex)
Usage examples of "annexed".
It would have been easily disposed of if the only rights which could be annexed to land were easements, such as a right of way.
In the argument of Chudleigh's Case the line is drawn thus: "Always, the warranty as to voucher requires privity of estate to which it was annexed," (i.
But of things annexed to land, it is otherwise, as of commons, advowsons, and the like appendants or appurtenances .
So note a diversity between a use or warranty, and the like things annexed to the estate of the land in privity, and commons, advowsons, and other hereditaments annexed to the possession of the land.
Coke, in his Commentary on Littleton (385 a), takes a distinction between a warranty, which binds the party to yield lands in recompense, and a covenant annexed to the land, which is to yield but damages.
The technical expression for the rule was that they were annexed to the estate in privity.
It has already been observed that an easement of fencing may be annexed to land, and it was then asked what was the difference in kind between a right to have another person build such structures, and a right to have him repair structures already built.
We may remark, that when Augustus divided Italy into eleven regions, the little province of Istria was annexed to that seat of Roman sovereignty.
If we inquire into the present state of those countries, we shall find that, on the left hand of the Danube, Temeswar and Transylvania have been annexed, after many revolutions, to the crown of Hungary.
Phoenicia and Palestine were sometimes annexed to, and sometimes separated from, the jurisdiction of Syria.
He fixed Dalmatius on the Gothic frontier, to which he annexed the government of Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece.
That mysterious circle was enlarged to an indefinite extent, by the verbal or written donation of Charlemagne, ^65 who, in the first transports of his victory, despoiled himself and the Greek emperor of the cities and islands which had formerly been annexed to the Exarchate.
The victories of Nicephorus, John Zimisces, and Basil the Second, revived the fame, and enlarged the boundaries, of the Roman name: the province of Cilicia, the metropolis of Antioch, the islands of Crete and Cyprus, were restored to the allegiance of Christ and Caesar: one third of Italy was annexed to the throne of Constantinople: the kingdom of Bulgaria was destroyed.
By the first arms of Roger, the island or rock of Malta, which has been since ennobled by a military and religious colony, was inseparably annexed to the crown of Sicily.
Ten years after this revolution, the French monarchs annexed to their crown the duchy of Normandy: the sceptre of her ancient dukes had been transmitted, by a granddaughter of William the Conqueror, to the house of Plantagenet.