Curtilage

Fr. and Eng. [L. Lat. eurtilagium; from curtis, a dwelling, or curtillum, the enclosed area around it, and agere, to do; as being the place where the business of the house is done: or from curtis, or curtillum, solely: or from Fr. cour, court, and Sax. leagh, place.] A yard, court-yard, or piece of ground lying near to a dwelling-house, and included within the same fence. This ancient sense of the word is still retained. Spelman, voc.

Curiilagium.

Lib. Rames, § 271, cited ibid.

Shep. Touch. 94. 1 Cra Ws Heal Prop. 76.

In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground and buildings thereon, which is usually enclosed within the general fence immediately surrounding a principal messuage and outhuildings, ana yard closely adjoining to a dwelling-house; hut it may be large enough for cattle to be levant and couchant therem. 1 Chiti. Gen. Pract. 175, A garden, {hortus oliiorius.) Lindetoode Prov, tit. De aecimis, c. Sancta, § Omnibus.

Spelman.

TheL Dig. lib.

8, c. 1, IT 6. Shep. Touch. 94.

But this is not the modem meaning.

1 Chitt. Gen, Pr, uh. sup.