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Flat. A set of rooms on one floor of a house usually let unfurnished in many separate flats, which for all legal purposes are separate houses. For the purposes of the Housing Act, 1936, defined as a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed for use for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally, and 'block of flats,' a building which contains two or more flats and consists of three or more storeys exclusive of any storey which is constructed for use for purposes other than those of a dwelling. See Blackwell on the Law of Residential Flats; Woodfall, L. and T., and Forms in Appendix B. of that work.

adj. without an allowance or charge for accused interest, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 652.

A house in a larger block; an apartment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 652.

Flat, means a separate set of premises forming part of a building being a set of premises occupied wholly or mainly as a private dwelling, Ruddy v. Qakfern Properties Ltd., (2007) 1 All ER 337 CA: (2006) EWCA Civ 1389.