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Messuage

Messuage Meaning & Definition
Messuage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Messuage?

[n] (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household

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See Also | abode | domicile | dwelling | dwelling house | habitation | home

Messuage In Webster's Dictionary

\Mes"suage\ (?; 48), n. [Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium, mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.] (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. --Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. --Tennyson.

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