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. From Wordnik.com. [Recent Activity] Reference
It is called the curtilage search. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Law A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. From Wordnik.com. [Language] Reference
On one occasion they entered the curtilage of my boarding house, about fifteen or twenty in all, each very obviously the worse for wear. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-12] Reference
But here was the front; and I now perceived that the surrounding wall advanced some way before the house, so as to form a narrow curtilage. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference
In drawing Gates out into the curtilage of his home, is the officer still trespassing as he definitely lacks any probable cause to remain on the premises?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Arrest of Harvard Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.:] Reference
Ejida -- State run cooperative farm, for produce, animals, and/or greenhouses (as opposed to a Manage curtilage or tillage, which is for an individual family). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-08] Reference
It only needs a careless technician to decide to relieve himself on the way home within the farm's curtilage for this highly infectious disease to be on the move. From Wordnik.com. [Farm Scourge Returns] Reference
Immediately in its neighborhood -- so near that it might be said to be almost within the curtilage of the dwelling -- stood an old brick ruin of what had apparently been a substantial mansion-house. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
Weldon had argued that it must have belonged to Shenstead Farm at some point because it cut a U-shaped loop into his curtilage with only a meager hundred yards bordering the Lockyer-Foxes at the Manor. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
"Precisely; while they are within the curtilage of your house," I retorted. From Wordnik.com. [The House of the Wolf; a romance] Reference
We made our curtilage here, and here we lived happy until husband died of a fever. From Wordnik.com. [In The Boyhood of Lincoln A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk] Reference
Mr R. Parry - extend domestic curtilage (revised) at La Porte au Nord, Les Portes. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
Mr and Mrs Jeffreys - extend domestic curtilage (retrospective) at Rue des Houmets. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
The development is within the curtilage of a protected structure (Stewarts Hospital). From Wordnik.com. [An Irish Town Planner's Blog] Reference
Le Feuvre - extend curtilage and erect a garage at La Rocque a l'Or de Haut, Route de Crolier. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
Mr A. J. Davies - extend domestic curtilage at Vingtaine Vinery (land at rear of Vevey), Rue des Marais. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
Mr A. J. Davies - extend domestic curtilage at Vingtaine Vinery (land at read of Vevey), Rue des Marais. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
This gives the dwelling and its curtilage almost perfect drainage, so important in a flat or level country. From Wordnik.com. [The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,] Reference
The regular course of business would be as follows: -- An owner A would put his house and curtilage in the Rate. From Wordnik.com. [Speculations from Political Economy] Reference
He remembered, of course, that he was not meant to wander; that he must stay within the general curtilage of the house to which. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Mr and Mrs A. Bisson - change of use of outbuilding to office, extend domestic curtilage and erect fencing at Hazeleigh, Rue Haizes. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
"There is so much work lost," said the elder to his companion, as they approached the gate that opened into the curtilage of the dwelling. From Wordnik.com. [Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency.] Reference
Mr I. Brooks - demolish earth bank, extend domestic curtilage and construct earth bank in new location at Allouette de Bas, Grand Douit Road. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
This morning we perambulated the curtilage of the villa, alternately yelling like demoniacs and mewing like cats, without the slightest result. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
Mr J. Meller - variations to works previously approved to demolish and rebuild dwelling - reposition dwelling and redefine domestic curtilage at Woodlawn, Les Rues. From Wordnik.com. [This Is Guernsey] Reference
Thus if I estimate the real value of my house and curtilage at £1200, and feel that I do not care if I sell at that price, I shall put it down in the Rate Book at £900. From Wordnik.com. [Speculations from Political Economy] Reference
Having previously decimated the protections the Fourth Amendment accords to the home itself, our court now proceeds to dismantle the zone of privacy we enjoy in the home's curtilage and in public. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
In Keilw. 57, a dif - erence is taken between messuage and domus; and it is there said, that messuage extends to the curtilage, though not to the garden, but that domus only comprehends buildings. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...] Reference
The little inn and its curtilage had become but environs.). From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lyveden] Reference
I wonder if it extends to the curtilage around Mr. Baer’s home during ariot?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » SEIU Picketing on Someone’s Front Porch?] Reference
I wonder if it extends to the curtilage around Mr. Baer’s home during a riot?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » SEIU Picketing on Someone’s Front Porch?] Reference
An flying an helicopter at 400 feet above someone’s house is the functional equivalent of being on the curtilage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Times Square bombing — where were the cameras?] Reference
In Virginia, although there’s no codified castle doctrine, state common law clearly authorizes use of deadly force in self-defense or defense of others in one’s home and curtilage. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Can Lethal Self-Defense, Even Against Threats of Death, Serious Bodily Injury, Rape, and Kidnapping, Be Made a Crime?] Reference
Ok, what's curtilage?. From Wordnik.com. [Language] Reference
"I'm expending more energy trying to prepare my curtilage for accidents. From Wordnik.com. [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference
We argued amiably about its garden and curtilage. From Wordnik.com. [Jonah and Co.] Reference
"curtilage" - of his property. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
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