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What is a curtilage?

What is a curtilage? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.
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But the application is subject to the entire curtilage of the site remaining in the ownership of the new house, with no breaches of the boundary wall.
The proposed extension to the swimming pool can be considered appropriate to the existing curtilage inasmuch as it would be part of the group of residential buildings.
Any land that could be argued to be beyond the curtilage but still within the control of the applicant is unsuitable for landing helicopters due to tree cover or topography.
Presently the authorised planning use of the land is one dwelling house with residential curtilage.
We made our curtilage here, and here we lived happy until husband died of a fever.
The school, at least in my day, took responsibility for the immediate curtilage and the crossing of the roads near it, that was also so at Summer Hill School.

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