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

A farm in Scrooby, consisting of a messuage, cottage, and 113 acres of arable, meadow, and pasture, only let at £23.

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

He'll fancy dancers cattle, and present his lady with messuage and tenement.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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 Bell, George

After a nine days' courtship she became a bride, and she and her plum in the stocks—but not her messuage, house, and lands, in Kent—became the property of Sir Ulick O'Shane.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Edgeworth, Maria