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Noun (1)

(law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the householdType of dwelling, home

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Mes′suage (?; 48), noun

Origin: 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.— Alfred Tennyson

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54