[or-roots] definition ?

[LinLouVan at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/27/2009 11:56:07 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:

Can  anyone help with a definiton of the word "mefruages"?

As in "Manors,  Mefruages, Lands, and Tenements"



Bill,
Just as I suspected, the transcriber read the old 's' as an 'f'.
Here's the tip pick when I googled "mesruages." And this seems to fit the  
context.
Linda VanOrden
Junction City, Oregon
 
_messuages - definition of  messuages by the Free Online Dictionary  ..._ 
(http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages&ei=EMj
ASszeCoHVlAers63dBQ&sa=X&oi=spellmeleon_result&resnum=1&ct=result&usg=AFQjCN
Ee9dKK7r8adcg96abOZh71mZn4oA)   
n. 1. (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and  curtilage, 
and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.  ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages - _Cached_ 
(http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:bGIGdwtLg3QJ:www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages+mesruages&cd=1&hl=e
n&ct=clnk&ie=UTF-8)  - _Similar  


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(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=related:www.thefreedictionary.com/messuages) 

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