Curtilage

Word CURTILAGE
Character 9
Hyphenation cur ti lage
Pronunciations /ˈkɜːtɪlɪdʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Curtilage"

What do we mean by curtilage?

The area considered legally part of a house or dwelling by virtue of its enclosure by a fence or habitual use in domestic activities. noun

In law, the area of land occupied by a dwelling and its yard and outbuildings, and inclosed, or deemed as if inclosed, for their better use and enjoyment. noun

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

The area immediately surrounding a house. Contains either no roof, or areas within the roof to see inside. noun

The enclosed land around a house or other building noun

The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.

An illness dat results in your home and property's being in a somewhat-less-than-tidy condition. Urban Dictionary

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The word "curtilage" in example sentences

The courts have long held that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their homes and in the "curtilage," a fancy legal term for the area around the home. ❋ Unknown (2010)

a warrant to enter the suspect's driveway, part of the traditionally protected area around the home known as the "curtilage," because he had not put up a fence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Greenwood, which would allow searches, but the analogy is still flawed as the materials in question are not relinquished until asked for by the government agent as opposed to entrusted to a third party first and willingly left out in public the dissent in Greenwood stated that the garbage could not have been searched inside the curtilage or if in personal possession of the defendant in public. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It beggars belief that the Ministry charged with supervising the upkeep of a laboratory that handles virulent pathogens capable of destroying our livestock industry if mishandled should have been so derelict in its duties that the highly damaging foot & mouth virus was able to escape from its curtilage into the surrounding countryside. ❋ Unknown (2008)

On one occasion they entered the curtilage of my boarding house, about fifteen or twenty in all, each very obviously the worse for wear. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It only needs a careless technician to decide to relieve himself on the way home within the farm's curtilage for this highly infectious disease to be on the move. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If a cross is burned on the front lawn of an African-American family, a crime that is cognizable and punishable at law as inter alia trespass, arson, criminal mischief, vandalism, perhaps even burglary (via a common law curtilage theory), a judge may and should take into consideration a number of factors. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In drawing Gates out into the curtilage of his home, is the officer still trespassing as he definitely lacks any probable cause to remain on the premises? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The law itself is a braying donkey in these matters, but the apparent willingness of the police to slavishly follow the dictates of a Gramsci-inspired government and turn the tables on an innocent and well-intentioned medic questioning the behaviour of a boorish Volvo driver in the curtilage of the hospital he works in, exceeds even the worst nightmare of Eric Arthur Blair and is indeed beyond belief. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Law A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

Chloddia = Skene island dedicated to mining (mostly metals) chongyong = turbulent ocean comadrona = midwife cortices = shoreline areas curandera = healer/doctor curtilage = the land, including tillage, around a Manage ❋ Maggie Jochild (2004)

[Housekeeping] is not [my thing], so neighbors often point to my [cluttered] grounds and ask me if I have a curtilage disorder. ❋ QuacksO (2021)

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