Definition of Mesuage
Messuage, a dwelling-house with buildings and land attached for the
use of the household.
- Wikipedia
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (historic) a plot of land as the site for a house
*1985: Matthias turned his lonely house into a mart where furniture, plate and titledeeds to fields and messuages could be brought, evaluated, and transferred to the hands of the primal twelve as administrators. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
- (Law) a residential house with its assigned land
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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