MESSUAGE
messuage
(noun) (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
messuage (plural messuages)
(chiefly legal) A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.
Source: Wiktionary
Mes"suage (; 48), n. Etym: [Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium,
mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling,
fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse.] (Law)
Definition: A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage,
and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Cowell. Bouvier.
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and
messuages in York. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition