Tadlock v. . Mizell

Does the conveyance, by deed, of “a certain house or tenement” include the land upon .which said house is situate? The identical question was involved in the case of Broadhurst v. Mewborn, 171 N. C., 402. The Court said: “The devise of a ‘house,’ when referring, as in this case, to the dwelling-house of the owner, has been held the equivalent of the word messuage, and, in the absence of some term or clause restrictive of its meaning, it is said to convey the lot on which the dwelling is situate, together with the outbuildings customarily used by the owner as a part of his residence.” To the…