Usage examples (39)

• The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home.
• It is called the curtilage search.
• A warrant to enter the suspect's driveway, part of the traditionally protected area around the home known as the "curtilage," because he had not put up a fence.
• Law A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.