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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Messuage \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
messuage
n : a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent
land used by the household
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