from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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.