[ noun ] the enclosed land around a house or other building <noun.artifact> it was a small house with almost no yard
Curtilage \Cur"ti*lage\ (k?r"t?-l?j), n. [OF. cortillage, curtillage, fr. cortil court, courtyard, LL. cortis court. See {Court}.] (Law) A yard, courtyard, or piece of ground, included within the fence surrounding a dwelling house. --Burrill.
"This is not to say that an inspection of the curtilage (yard) of a house from an aircraft will always pass muster under the Fourth Amendment simply because the plane is within the navigable airspace specified by law," White said.