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How to pronounce curtilage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms grounds, yard
Type of field
Has types dooryard, backyard, garden, playground, side yard, front yard

Examples of curtilage

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For 4th Amendment purposes curtilage was treated the same as the inside of the house.
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The government is in essence attempting to over turn precedent in regards to curtilage.
From the forbes.com
A city which does not seem to belong within the curtilage of England.
From the independent.co.uk
A warrant was needed to search the curtilage.
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He also planted decorative shrubs and trees among the native eucalypts that dotted the homestead's curtilage.
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Theoretically, many structures might extend the curtilage protection to the areas immediately surrounding them.
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Punters arrive in the growing dusk, and sit on bench seats around the curtilage of the nakamal, often hidden behind bushes.
From the nzherald.co.nz
It has to do with curtilage.
From the infowars.com
This is important because in this case, the government conceded that the driveway of Mr. Pineda-Moreno's was a part of his curtilage.
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More examples
  • Yard: the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"
  • In law, curtilage is an area of land or structures around a dwelling or other structure.
  • For the purposes of this questionnaire a curtilage is taken to be a court or area of land attached to and including a dwelling house.
  • Means the area of land (including land covered by water) surrounding an item or area of heritage significance which is essential for retaining and interpreting its heritage significance.
  • A Court, Yard, Backside, or piece of Ground lying near, and belonging to, a Dwelling house [Sir Thomas Gatehouse, 1774]
  • A piece of ground within the limits or boundary of a property
  • The enclosed area of land adjacent to a dwelling house.
  • A yard or backside or ground immediately round a messuage.
  • Yard or court associated with a dwelling house.