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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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PERTINENT, n. Also pairtenent. Sc. n. usages:

1. Sc. Law: any adjunct, accessory, or privilege pertaining to a piece of land or heritable property, an appurtenance, freq. in phrs. part(s) and pertinent(s), (all) parts, pendicles and pertinents, “everything connected with or forming part of lands conveyed (except the regalia) that is not specially reserved from the grant” (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 63). See also Pendicle.Abd. 1710 Burgh Rec. Abd. (B.R.S.) 339:
He had purchased a tenement of inland, with the closs and pertinents.Abd. 1733 Session Papers, Leslie v. Fraser (29 March 1805) 300:
All and haill that half-net's salmon-fishing in the King's Cavil, upon the water of Don, with the profits, pertinents, and privileges thereof, used and wont.Sc. 1734 J. Spotiswood Hope's Practicks 302:
The Word Pertinent, respects Lands, or other Goods that are corporial.Sc. 1769 Faculty Decisions IV. 353:
The Lords found the pursuer intitled to the seat in the kirk, as part and pertinent of his lands.Sc. 1773 Erskine Institute ii. vi. § 4:
Every thing which, from its close coherence or connection with land, is considered in law as part or pertinent of it, goes to the vassal as an accessory of the subject contained in the feudal grant.Sc. 1800 Hume Lectures (Stair Soc.) VI. 251:
The minister was not entitled, as a proprietor of the shore, to the high uses of the seaweed in manufacturing kelp, and so on; though he might use the seaweed as a pertinent, for manure to the glebe.Sc. 1891 J. Craigie Conveyancing 52:
It is customary to insert, after the description of the lands, the words “with the parts and pertinents of the said subjects,” but these words are unnecessary, as they contain nothing beyond what is contained in the description . . . The regalia, however, do not pass as part and pertinent of lands under a Crown grant.Sc. 1936 Encycl. Sc. Legal Styles IV. 266:
The subjects hereinafter disponed are and always during that period have been possessed as part of the said lands of X. or with and as pertinent of those lands.

2. In gen.: an adjunct, appendage, accessory (Ork. 1965). Obs. in Eng.Sc. 1854 H. Miller Schools xxi.:
As if its thinking part had no other vocation than simply to take care of the mouth and its pertinents.