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.