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appurtenance

appurtenance [Anglo-French apurtenance, alteration of Old French apartenance, from apartenant appurtenant] : property (as an outbuilding or fixture) or a property right (as a right of way) that is incidental to a principal property and that passes with the principal property upon transfer ...


Compound

In the East Indies an inclosure containing a house outbuildings etc...


Outbuild

To exceed in building or in durability of building...


Outbuilding

A building separate from and subordinate to the main house an outhouse...


outhouse

A small house or building at a little distance from the main house an outbuilding...


Shed

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something a structure often open in front an outbuilding a hut as a wagon shed a wood shed...


Curtilage

Curtilage [fr. Cour, Fr., court; and leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the limit of the premises in which house-breaking can be committed. See (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 46 (2), by which no building, though within the curtilage, is to be deemed part of a dwelling-house to constitute burglary, unless therebe a communication between such building and the dwelling-house.Curtilage, as limited to the immediate area surrounding a building, Skerritts Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 511.Of a mansion house, an area which no conveyancer would extend beyond that occupied by the house, the stables and other outbuildings. The gardens and the rough grass up to the ha-ha, if there was one (According to Nourse LJ), Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2001) QB LR 59.Curtilage, has been described as a courtyard, back-side ...


Messuage

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...


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