curtilage

Example Sentences

• "Coordinate term: messuage"
• "[T]he King grants them, that they may buy houſes and curtelages in the Cities or Burroughs vvhere they reſide, ſo as they hold them in chief of the King; ſaving to the Lords the Services due and accuſtomed."
• "I give to my kinsman Alexander Trevethan, John Nicholls of Trereife, Esq., George Veale of Trevailer, Gent., Thomas Rowe, Clerk, the Vicar of Madron, and to the succeeding Vicar and Vicars, Abraham Chirgwin and Thomas Baynard both of Madron, yeomen, My little Tenement in Leriggon, […] and the House and Courtledge now in the possession of Cicely Benver, Widow for her life […] and all that House, Courtledge and Cellar, Granted by Lease to George Edmonds, and that Cellar and Courtledge now in the possession of Daniel Hawkey, Merchant, By Grant for 99 years, […]"
• "[I]f the barn, ſtable, or vvarehouſe be parcel of the manſionhouſe, though not under the ſame roof or contiguous, a burglary may be committed therein; for the capital houſe protects and privileges all it's branches and appurtenants, if vvithin the curtilage or homeſtall."
• "On the middle of the down stood a wayside inn; a desolate and villanous-looking lump of lichen-spotted granite, with windows paper-patched, and rotting thatch kept down by stones and straw-bands; and at the back a rambling courtledge of barns and walls, around which pigs and bare-foot children grunted in loving communion of dirt."
• "The house, a square, two-storyed building of greystone, roofed with heavy slates, was guarded in front by a small courtlage, the wall of which blocked all view from the lower rooms. […] A white gate opened on the courtlage, and the path from this to the front door was marked out by slabs of blue slate, accurately laid in line."