OUTHOUSES

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  OUTHOUSES. Buildings adjoining to or belonging to dwelling-houses. 
       2. It is not easy to say what comes within and what is excluded from 
  the meaning of out-house. It has been decided that a school-room, separated 
  from the dwelling-house by a narrow passage about a yard wide, the roof of 
  which was partly upheld by that of the dwelling-house, the two buildings, 
  together with some other, and the court which enclosed them, being rented by 


  the same person, was properly described as an out-house: Russ. & R. C. C. 
  295; see, for other cases, 3 Inst. 67; Burn's Just., Burning, II; 1 Leach, 
  49; 2 East's P. C. 1020, 1021. Vide House.