Legal Term: INCIDENT

Definition: A thing depending upon, appertaining to, or following another, called the princinal. 2. The power of punishing for contempt is incident to a court of record; rent is incident to a reversion; distress to rent; estovers of woods to a tenancy for a life or years. 1 Inst. 151; Noy s Max. n. 13; Vin. Ab. h.. t.; Dane s Ab. h. t.; Com. Dig. h. t., and the references there; Bro. Ab. h. t.; Roll s Ab. 75.

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