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CURTILAGE (Med. Lat. curtilagium, from cortile or cortile, a court or yard, cf. " court ")

CURTILAGE (Med. See also:
LAT
Lat. curtilagium, from cortile or cortile, a See also:
COURT
COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)
court or yard, cf. " court ") , the See also:

AREA

area of See also:

LAND

land which immediately surrounds a dwelling-See also:

house and its yard and outbuildings. In feudal times every See also:

castle with its dependent buildings was protected by a surrounding See also:

wall, and all the land within the wall was termed the curtilage; but the See also:

MODERN

modern legal See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

interpretation of the word, i.e. what area is enclosed by the curtilage, depends upon the circumstances of each individual See also:

case, such as the terms of the See also:

grant or See also:

DEED (in O. Eng. dead, from the stem of the verb " to do ")

deed which passes the See also:

PROPERTY

property, or upon what is held to be a convenient amount of land for the occupation of the house, &c. The importance of the word in modern See also:

law depends on the fact that the curtilage marks the limit of the premises in which housebreaking can be committed.

End of Article: CURTILAGE (Med. Lat. curtilagium, from cortile or cortile, a court or yard, cf. " court ")

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