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Messuage [fr. messuagium, Law Lat., formed perhaps fr. mesnage, by mistake of the n, in court hand, for u, they being written alike; or fr. maison, Fr.], a dwelling-house with its outbuildings and curtilage and some adjacent land assigned to the use thereof. See Co. Litt. 5 b, and Mr. Hargrave's note, as to what passes under the word 'messuage.' In Monks v. Dykes, (1839) 4 M&W 567, Parke, B., said that 'a messuage and a dwelling-house are substantially the same thing, and therefore if rooms be so occupied as to be in fact a dwelling-house, they may be described as a messuage.'In Scotland the principal dwelling-house without a barony, Bell's DictMessuage, a dwelling house together with the cartilage, including any out buildings, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn...
messuage
messuage [Anglo-French, probably alteration of Old French mesnage dwelling house, ultimately from Latin mansion- mansio habitation, dwelling, from manēre to remain, sojourn, dwell] : a dwelling house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage and other adjoining lands used in connection with the household ...
Appurtenances
Appurtenances, belonging to another thing, as hamlets to a manor, and common of pasture, turbary, etc.; liberties and services, outhouses, yards orchards, and gardens are appurtenant to a messuage, but lands cannot properly be said to be appurtenant to a messuage, Com. Dig., tit. 'Appendant and Appurtenant.' The word 'appurtenances' will be construed strictly [Re Peck, (1893) 2 Ch 315], but it has a secondary meaning equivalent to 'usually occupied with'; see Roe v. Siddons, (1888) 22 QBD 236, per Fry. (LJ).A right of common 'appurtenant' must be the subject of a grant, express or implied by prescription; 'appendant,' is a right by common law incident to certain grants made before the Statute 'Quia Emptores' 1290 (18 Edw. 1, c. 1).The right to compensation upon extinguishment of manorial incidents is a right appertaining to a manor; (English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 52, replacing and extending the Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 6....
Messuage
A dwelling house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household...
Burial
Burial. Burial in some part of the parish churchyard without payment is a Common Law right, but not burial in any particular part of it. In order to acquire a perfect right to be buried in a particular vault or place, a faculty must be obtained from the ordinary, as in the case of a pew; or a man may prescribe that he is occupier of an ancient messuage in a parish, and ought to have separate burial in such a vault within the church, and such prescription implies that a faculty was originally obtained. The faculty, however, fails when the family cease to be parishioners. In Bryan v. Whistler, (1828) 8 B. & C. 288, it was held that an exclusive right of burial in a vault is an easement, and therefore cannot be granted by parol or by mere writing without a deed.Burial must not take place except after the Registrar of Births, Deaths or Marriages has issued his certificate of death or by order of a Coroner, see 16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 48. See CORONER.A clergyman may be prosecuted in the Ecclesia...
Commandery
Commandery, a manor or chief messuage with lands and tenements thereto appertaining, which belonged to the priority of St. John of Jerusalem, in England; he who had the government of such a manor or house was styled the commander, who could not dispose of it but to the use of the priory, only taking thence his own sustenance, according to his degree. The manors and lands belonging to the priory of St. John of Jerusalem were given to Henry the Eighth by 32 Hen. 8, c. 20, about the time of the dissolution of abbeys and monasteries; so that the name only of commanderies remains, the power being long since extinct....
Farm or ferm
Farm or ferm [fr. firma, Lat.; feorme, Sax., food, and feorman, to feed], land taken upon lease under a rent, generally annual, payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley....
Land
Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...
Masagium
Masagium, a messuage....
Mease
Mease [fr. messuagium, Lat.], a messuage or dwelling-house, Fitz. N.B. 2; also half of a thousand....
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