MESSUAGE (from Anglo-French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage, menage, popular Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell)

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MESSUAGE (from Anglo-French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage, menage, popular Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell) , in law, a

term

TERM

equivalent to a dwelling-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, and including out-buildings, orchard, curtilage or

court

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
- INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)
of the Lat. curia, the word used in
medieval
- MEDIEVAL
documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

-yard and

garden

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

. At one

time

messuage

MESSUAGE (from Anglo-French mesuage, probably a corruption of mesuage, menage, popular Lat. mansionaticuni, from mansio, whence mod. Fr. maison, from manere, to dwell)

" is supposed to have had a more extensive meaning than that comprised in the word

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, but such. distinction, if it ever existed, no longer survives.

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