messuage

American  

[mes-wij] / ˈmɛs wɪdʒ /

noun

Law.

1. a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the lands appropriated to the use of the household.

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messuage British  

/ ˈmɛswɪdʒ /

noun

1. property law a dwelling house together with its outbuildings, curtilage, and the adjacent land appropriated to its use

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Etymology

Origin of messuage

1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, misreading ( n taken as u ) of Old French mesnage ménage ( def. )

Example Sentences

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messuage

This stone messuage, owned by rich & widowed Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, castellated like an English royal residence of the time of William the Conqueror, is at Purchase, N. Y. "Land of the Free."

From Time Magazine Archive

First, one messuage with th'appurtenaunces in Oterbourne, in the tenure of Cuthberte Carre 24s.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

Thomas Shakespeare, one close, 2/; one tofte and 16 acres, 13/4; one messuage, etc.,

From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

In 1310, Henry Balduyne sold to Walter de Halfenaked one messuage, two acres of arable, and two acres of meadow, in Washington and Sullington.

From Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Toft, toft, n. a hillock: a messuage with right of common.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various