What is CURTILAGE? Definition of CURTILAGE in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
The inclosed space of ground and buildings immediately surrounding a dwelling house. 1 Chit.Gen.Pr. 175; United States v. Vlahos, D.C.Or., 19 F.Supp. 166, 169.
In its most comprehensive and proper legal signification, it includes all that space of ground and buildings thereon which is usually inclosed within the general fence immediately surrounding a principal messuage and outbuildings, and yard closely adjoining to a dwelling house, but it may be large enough for cattle to be levant and couchant there in. 1 Chit.Gen.Pr. 175.
The curtilage of a dwelling house is a space, necessary and convenient and habitually used for the family purposes, and the carrying on of domestic employments. It includes the garden, if there be one, and it need not be separated from other lands by fence. State v. Shaw, 31 Me. 523; Derrickson v. Edwards, 29 N.J.Law, 474, 80 Am. Dec. 220; Bare v. Commonwealth, 122 Va. 783, 94 S.E. 168, 172; State v. Lee, 120 Or, 643, 253 P. 533, 534.
A piece of ground commonly used with the dwelling house. Fugate v. Commonwealth, 294 Ky. 410, 171 S.W.2d 1020, 1021. A small piece of land, not necessarily inclosed, around the dwelling house, and generally includes the buildings used for domestic purposes in the conduct of family affairs. Bruner v. State, 47 Okl.Cr. 241, 288 P. 369, 370; a courtyard or the space of ground adjoining the dwelling house necessary and convenient and habitually used for family purposes and the carrying on of domestic employments. Jones v. Commonwealth, 239 Ky. 110, 38 S.W.2d 971, 973. A piece of ground within the common inclosure belonging to a dwelling house, and enjoyed with it, for its more convenient occupation. Italian American Building & Loan Ass'n of Passaic County v. Russo, 132 N.J.Eq. 319, 28 A.2d 196, 198; People v. Gedney, 10 Hun., N.Y., 154. In Michigan it has been extended to include more than an inclosure near the house. People v. Taylor, 2 Mich. 250.
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