Messuage
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
A term used in conveyancing, and nearly synonymous with dwellinghouse. A dwelling-house with the adjacent building and curtilage.
Marmet Co. v. Archibald, 37 W. Va. 778, 17 S. E. 299.
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 w'hich the house is buljt; Co. Litt 5 b; 2 Saund. 400; 4 Cruise, Dig. 321; 2 Term 502; Grimes v. Wilson, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 331. But see the cases cited in 9 B. & C. 681. This term, it is said, includes a church; 11 Co. 26; 2 Esp. 528; 1 Salk. 256; 8 B. & 0.
25. And see 3 Wils. 141; 2 W. Blackst. 726; 4 M. & W. 567; 2 Bingh. n. o. 617; 1 Saund. 6; 2 Washb. R. P.