mes|suage

mes|suage
mes|suage «MEHS wihj», noun.
Law. a dwelling house with its adjacent buildings and the land assigned to the use of those who live in it: »

They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent and messuages in York (Tennyson).

[< Anglo-French messuage, ultimately < Latin manēre remain, dwell]

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