Cottage
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
COTTAGIUM.
In Old English Law. A small house without any land belonging to it, whereof mention is made in stat.
4 Edw. I. But, by stat. 31 Eliz. cap.
7, no man may build such cottage for habitation unless he lay unto it four acres of freehold land, except in market-towns, cities, or within a mile of the sea, or for the habitation of laborers in mines, shepherds, foresters, sailors, etc. Twenty years' possession of cottage gives good title as against the lord; Bull. N. P. 103 a, 104. By a grant of a cottage the curtilage will pass; 4 Vin. Abr. 582.