Legal Definition and Related Resources of Messuage
Meaning of Messuage
A dwelling house and land appurtenant to same. See Hall v Philadelphia Co., 78 S.E. 755, 72 W. Va. 573.
Messuage Alternative Definition
A term used in conveyancing, and nearly synonymous with “dwelling house.” A grant of a messuage with the appurtenances will not only pass a house, but all the buildings attached or belonging to it, as also its curtilage, garden, and orchard, together with the close on which the house is built. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Saund. 400; Hammond, N. P. 189; 4 Cruise, Dig. 321; 2 Term. R. 502; 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 331. But see the cases cited in 9 Barn. & C. 681. This term, it is said, includes a church. 11 Coke, 26; 2 Esp. 528; 1 Salk. 256; 8 Barn. & C. 25. And see 3 Wils. 141; 2 W. Bl. 726; 4 Mees. & W. 567; 2 Bing. (N. C.) 617; 1 Saund. 6.
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Messuage in Law Enforcement
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Messuage
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legal term for “dwelling,” late 14c., (late 13c. in Anglo-Latin), from Anglo-French messuage, which probably is a clerical error for mesnage (see menage). Originally the portion of land set aside for a dwelling-house and outbuildings, whether occupied by them or not; later chiefly in reference to the house and buildings and the attached land.
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police
- Law Enforcement Agency
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- messuage in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
- messuage in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
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