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Homestead vs Curtilage - What's the difference?

homestead | curtilage |

As nouns the difference between homestead and curtilage

is that homestead is a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm while curtilage is the area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.

As a verb homestead

is to acquire or settle on land as a homestead.

homestead

English

Noun

(wikipedia homestead) (en noun)
  • a house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm
  • (Dryden)
  • the place that is one's home
  • (South Africa) A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family
  • The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
  • * W. Tooke
  • We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To acquire or settle on land as a homestead.
  • See also

    * hstead * homesteading * smallholding

    curtilage

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) The area immediately surrounding a house, including any closely associated buildings and structures.
  • Synonyms

    * (area around a house) grounds

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