mansion house

mansion house
Deriving from the Latin "mansio," a place where one remains or sojourns. Including, not only the dwelling house, but also the outhouses, such as barns, stables, cow houses, dairy houses and the like, if they be parcel of the messuage, though they be not under the same roof, or joining contiguous to it. State v Brooks, 4 Conn 446, 448. See quarantine.

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