In old English law. A chief servant in husbandry; a bailiff. … [Read more...]

One who said mass; a priest Cowell. … [Read more...]

One who bears messages or errands; a ministerial officer employed by executive officers, legislative bodies, and courts of justice, whose service consists principally in carrying verbal or written communications or executing other orders. In Scotland there are officers attached to the courts, called "messengers at arms." An officer attached te a bankruptcy court whose duty … [Read more...]

property. This word is synonymous with dwelling-house; and a grant of a messuage with the appurtenances, will not only pass a house, but all the buildings attached or belonging to it, as also its curtilage, garden and orchard, together with the close on which the house is built. This term, it is said, includes a church. METHOD. The mode of operating or the means of attaining an … [Read more...]

This term is. now synonymous with "dwelling-house," but had once a more extended signification. It is frequently used in deeds, in describing the premises. Marmet Co. v. Archibald, 37 W. Va. 778, 17 S. E. 300; Grimes v. Wilson, 4 Blackf. (Ind.) 333; Derby v. Jones, 27 Me. 360; Davis v. Lowden, 56 N. J. Eq. 126, 38 Atl. 64a Although the word "messuage" may, there is no necessity … [Read more...]