Associations to the word «Messuage»

Wiktionary

MESSUAGE, noun. (chiefly legal) A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

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John Adams