noun
- dwelling houses with their adjacent buildings and lands
Usage: legal; archaic
Examples
- The deed included three messuages along the village road.
- Medieval records often listed messuages as taxable properties.
- The lord granted several messuages to his loyal knights.
- Each messuage contained a house, garden, and small plot of land.
- The legal document described the boundaries of all messuages in the manor.
- Historical property records frequently mention messuages and their tenants.