messuage
messuage
Definition
mes·suage (mes′wij)
noun
Law a dwelling house with its outbuildings and adjacent land
Etymology: ME < Anglo-Fr mesuage, prob. altered < OFr mesnage: see ménage
messuage
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- surrender: Agnes Marr, widow, surrendered a messuage and 48 acres of land and meadow with appurtenances in Thurcroft to Ralph Marr.
- comprise: February 11 th 1824 Valuable Estate called Motts situated near Cavendish church, comprising messuage, barn, cowhouse, stables, 36 acres.
- grant: The priory granted the 2 messuages to Edward Taillour for 80 years from 1535 at £ 11.
- hold: However, a deed of 1341 in British Museum refers to a messuage held in the parish by John Brice.
- sell: Langford was still tenant in 1544, when the Crown sold the messuage to George Bacon and George Baron.
- call: She held a messuage called Durance in 1729, ( fn.
Preposition: with
- shop: In 1409 4 and 5 were described as 3 messuages with 9 shops and a vacant plot.
Adjective modifier
- freehold: Properties: 2 freehold messuages in West Wickham; property in parish of St Mary, Croydon.
- certain: Randolph, of London, secured on certain messuages, &c. in Chester.
- great: He added other shops and cellars in the area and he bought Clarks Hall, like Dyers ' Hall another 'former great messuage ' .
- customary: Johannis Judd, nephew, son of Thomas Judd, brother, 2 customary messuages or tenements with appurtenances?
- same: The same messuages and land can be identified as the names of the 1341 tenants are given.
- ancient: Later Halls lived in Church Street in an ancient messuage on the site of the present Baptist church, and were plumbers and glaziers.
Modifies a noun
- hereditament: All of which said lands messuages hereditaments and premises were then in the occupation of William Banting.
Noun used with modifier
- copyhold: Free and copyhold messuages along the edge of the waste where it adjoined the cultivated fields suggest that the road pre-dated the fields.
- capital: Edward Earl of Devon had a capital messuage here in the reign of Queen Mary ( fn.
- diver: Lease to Sir John Hungerford of divers messuages, &c. , in cos.
- brick: The property was described then as 3 brick messuages, on a site 27 ft. 4 in.
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