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Definition of Messuages
1. messuage [n] - See also: messuage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Messuages
Literary usage of Messuages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by Great Britain Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner (1905)
"Saunders; in Holy Trinity parish, 21 messuages, etc. including Hell Orchard ...
and 2 messuages in the street called Seynt John's Bridge in tenures of John ..."
2. The Index Library by British Record Society (1908)
"The messuages in the said parish of St. Olave are held of the Queen in free
burgage, and not in chief, and are worth per ann., clear, ..."
3. Burgage Tenure in Mediaeval England by Morley de Wolf Hemmeon (1914)
"RENTS AND SALES OF messuages What was the actual worth of the messuages whose
land- gables, when they paid any, seldom exceeded a penny or twopence, ..."
4. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"Just'y and without delay, she render to AB and E. his wife, [four messuages, four
gardens, and four acres of land,] witli the appurtenances, ¡n the parish ..."
5. Abstracts of Inquisitiones Post Mortem Relating to the City of London by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Samuel Fry, Sidney Joseph Madge (1896)
"Hereford, all my messuages in the said Parish of St. Bride, my messuages in
Bishopsgate Street, and all my messuages in the parish of St. Margaret in Friday ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots, and Persons of by Leonard Shelford (1833)
"Lease granted by the Committees of the Estate of a Lunatic, of messuages and
Land, of which he mas seised in Fee. first part; [two committees] (t), ..."
7. Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Containing the Cases by Thomas Chitty, Richard Burn (1845)
"the said manors, messuages, buildings, lands, tenements, and ИГР r_- ments, and
the several estates and interests of and in the ваше Щ-. ..."
8. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Mortmain, and Charitable Uses and Trusts by Leonard Shelford (1836)
"Whether such other lands, messuages or tenements and hereditaments in the preceding
interrogatories mentioned and inquired after have not been and are not ..."
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