Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Messuage

Messuage (?; 48) , noun

[Compare Old French mesuage, masnage, Late Latin messuagium, mansionaticum, from Latin mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, from manere, mansum, to stay, remain, English mansion, manse.]

(Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. — Cowell. Bouvier
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. — Tennyson