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In law: A dwellinghouse.

A dwelling-house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, including garden and orchard, appropriated to the use of the household; a manor-house and its appendages.

A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.

A plot of land as the site for a house; later, a residential building taken together with its outbuildings and assigned land.

(law) a dwelling house and its adjacent buildings and the adjacent land used by the household