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

It is a grant by one Elizabeth Shakspere to John Lone and William Prins of a messuage with three crofts.

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

Grant by John Dursley, citizen and armorer of London, to William Serjaunt Taverner, of Stanes, and another, of a messuage, &c. in Westminster.

From Notes and Queries, Number 78, April 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

In 3 Elizabeth Thomas Shakespere held a messuage in Lowston.

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

A free tenant had a messuage and 33/4 acres, the rent of which was 3s. a year.

From A Short History of English Agriculture by W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts) Curtler

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