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Cottage

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

estates, is nearly synonymous with messuage or house; it imports @ smaller and inferior building.

1 Thom. Co. Litt. 216.

By the grant of a cottage, it is said, passes a small dwellinghouse, which has no land belonging toit.

Shep. To. 94.