messuage Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household

WordNet

Mes"suage noun
Etymology
Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium, mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.
Definitions
  1. (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 1913