Cottage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
COTA, or COTTAGIUM.
In old English law
A small house without any land belonging to it, whereof mention is made in St. 4 Edw. I. But, by St. 31 Eliz. c. 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.
Termes de la Ley
Twenty years' possession of cottage gives good title as against the lord.
Buller, N. P. 103a, 104.
By a grant of a cottage the curtilage will pass.
4 Viner, Abr.,582.