messuage
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmɛswɪd͡ʒ/
messuage (plural messuages)
- (chiefly legal) A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
- Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir / To a chancery suit, and messuages, and lands [...].
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- Matthias turned his lonely house into a mart where furniture, plate and titledeeds to fields and messuages could be brought, evaluated, and transferred to the hands of the primal twelve as administrators.
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:
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