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The enclosed land around a house or other building
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curtilage
Word definitions for curtilage in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from Anglo-French curtilage , from Old French cortil "little court, walled garden, yard," from Medieval Latin cortile "court, yard," from Latin cortis (see court (n.)).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" [syn: yard , grounds ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In law, the curtilage of a house or dwelling is the land immediately surrounding it, including any closely associated buildings and structures, but excluding any associated " open fields beyond ", and also excluding any closely associated buildings, structures, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Curtilage \Cur"ti*lage\ (k?r"t?-l?j), n. [OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See Court .] (Law) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. --Burrill.
Usage examples of curtilage.
He shall also have and receive all offerings belonging to the church of Hursley, and all small tithes arising within the parish of the same, viz., the tithes of cheese, milk, honey, wax, pigs, lambs, calves, eggs, chickens, geese, pigeons, flax, apples, pears, and all other tithable fruits whatsoever of curtilages or gardens.