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▪ I. messuage|ˈmɛsweɪdʒ|
Also 5–7 mesuage.
[a. AF. messuage, mesuage, prob. orig. a graphic corruption of mesnage: see menage.
The main difficulty in the way of this etymology is the existence of a continental OF. masuage, masuiage, masowaige, denoting a tenement of some kind, and a related masuier, masuwier, masoier, mazowier, tenant of a ‘masuage’ (cf. Frankish Latin mansuarius, mansoarius). OF. had also masurage denoting a tenement, and masurier the corresponding term for the tenant, f. masure:—late L. type *mansūra dwelling, f. manēre to dwell.]
Originally, the portion of land intended to be occupied, or actually occupied, as a site for a dwelling-house and its appurtenances. In modern legal language, a dwelling-house with its outbuildings and curtilage and the adjacent land assigned to its use. capital messuage: see capital a. 6 b.
[1290Rolls of Parlt. I. 53/2 De uno Messuagio cum pertin' ibidem.] c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 59 The person of the toun..In purpos was to maken hir his heir Bothe of his catel and his messuage. 1463Will J. Baret in Bury Wills (Camden) 24, I beqwethe to William Baret,..myn hefd place, othir wyse callyd a mesuage, wiche I dwellyd in. 1577in Misc. Gen. & Her. Ser. iii. I. 83 The said William was also seised..of one messuage non edeficat. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Log. i. vi. 31 b, A messuage is made of two partes, del terre et structure. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 33 Reservand alwaies the chiefe messuage, to the eldest sonne. 1639MS. Indenture, estate at Knedlington, co. York, A sellion, being the fourth part of one messuage lying on the marsh. 1797Trans. Soc. Arts XV. 120 John Sutton certifieth, that he is the occupier of a messuage and a farm. 1820Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. v. 91 Our residence is a cottage..—a messuage or tenement, such as a little farmer..might retire to. 1837Lockhart Scott III. 69 The magnificent Castle of Drumlanrig in Nithsdale, the principal messuage of the dukedom of Queensberry. 1842Tennyson E. Morris 126 They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent and messuages in York.
b. Comb.: † messuage-stead.
1564Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) 277, ij messuage steids, with one kilnehouse. Ibid. 334 One mesuage stede, not buylded upon.
▪ II. messuage
obs. form of message. |