Usage examples (37)

• "It is more a messuage than a premises," I explained.
• Margaret, his mother, one messuage, a barn and four acres of ground in the parish of Kingston-on-Thames.
• Continuing along the road as we studied the home, we were led around to the landward front and into the midst of the ancient messuage.
• The family continued to inhabit this new messuage until about fifty years before the commencement of our history, when it was much damaged by