Messuage
WordNet
noun
(1) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household
WiktionaryText
Etymology
Anglo-Norman mesuage, probably originally a misreading of mesnage ‘ménage, household’.
Noun
- a plot of land as the site for a house
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- 1985: Matthias turned his lonely house into a mart where furniture, plate and titledeeds to fields and messuages could be brought, evaluated, and transferred to the hands of the primal twelve as administrators. — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
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- a residential house with its assigned land