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. )

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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

In 1382 he and John Herlyng acquired a messuage and sixty acres of land.

From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert

In 49 Edward III he was granted a messuage with pertinences in Grippewic.

From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert

Warwick, husbandman, of a messuage, lands, etc., in Wilmer, late in the tenure of Robert Wilmer, deceased, was drawn up July 15, 23 Henry VIII.,

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

In 1361 he was given a messuage and shop formerly owned by Walter Ragoun in London and worth forty shillings yearly.

From Chaucer's Official Life by James Root Hulbert

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