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messuage n. 家宅 家宅 messuage n 1: ( law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the householdMessuage \ 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. [ 1913 Webster] They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] MESSUAGE, property. This word is synonymous with dwelling- house; and a grant of a messuage with the appurtenances, will not only pass a house, but all the buildings attached or belonging to it, as also its curtilage, garden and orchard, together with the close on which the house is built. 1 Inst. 5, b.; 2 Saund. 400; Ham. N. P. 189; 4 Cruise, 321; 2 T. R. 502; 1 Tho. Co. Litt. 215, note 35; 4 Blackf. 331. But see the cases cited in 9 B. & Cress. 681; S. C. 17 Eng. Com. L. R. 472. This term, it is said, includes a church. 11 Co. 26; 2 Esp. N. P. 528; 1 Salk. 256; 8 B. & Cress. 25; S. C. 15 Eng. Com. L. Rep. 151. Et vide 3 Wils. 141; 2 Bl. Rep. 726; 4 M. & W. 567; 2 Bing. N. C. 617; 1 Saund. 6.
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