CURTILAGE, noun In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI
curtilage
Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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