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Webster 1913 Edition

(?; 48)

Noun.

[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.

Noun.

In law, a dwelling house and adjoining land, appropriated to the use of the household, including the adjacent buildings.