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Webster 1913 Edition

(k[GREEK]r′t[GREEK]-l[GREEK]j)

Noun.

[OF.

cortillage

curtillage

, fr.

cortil

court, courtyard, LL.

cortis

court. See

(Law)

A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house.

Burrill.

Noun.

In law, a yard, garden, inclosure or field near and belonging to a messuage. [This is probably from court or the same radix.]