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What is a messuage?

What is a messuage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (chiefly law) A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.
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On the other hand, a poor woman holds a messuage, and need do no more than carry water to the mowers.
The ancient great hall of this messuage is yet standing, and pertaining to a great brewhouse for beer.
The following is an abstract of the services of a tenant who held a messuage and xviii.
Harris's first appearance in the Dulwich papers occurs in 1595 when he witnessed the bargain and sale of a share in a jointly held messuage, from John Alleyn to Edward.
A few cases occur, but only a few, where a messuage is held without land.
Peter renounced his claim on the messuage and two virgates and in return Roger gave half the mill at Wycherly to Peter and the use of his woods.

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