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A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.

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  1. n. A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
  2. n. (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household
  3. A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.
  4. A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage,and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.Cowell. Bouvier.They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, andmessuages in York. Tennyson.
  5. n. (law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household