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Masagium

Masagium, a messuage.

Appurtenances

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.'

Burial

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

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;

Farm or ferm

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;

Mease

Mease [fr. messuagium, Lat.], a messuage or dwelling-house, Fitz. N.B. 2; also half of a thousand.

Mise

etc.' also, the issue in a writ of right. It is sometimes corruptly used for measeor mees-i.e., a messuage.

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