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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 195 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MESSUAGE (from Anglo-See also:French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage, See also:menage, popular See also:Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell) , in See also:law, a See also:term See also:equivalent to a dwelling-See also:house, and including out-buildings, See also:orchard, See also:curtilage or See also:court-yard and See also:garden. At one See also:time messuage " is supposed to have had a more extensive meaning than that comprised in the word house, but such. distinction, if it ever existed, no longer survives.

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