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Building operation, means construction, structural alteration, repair or maintenance of an building (including repointing, external cleaning), the demolition of building, the reparation for and laying the foundations of, an intended building and the creation and dismantling of cranes or scaffolding, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 21, 4th Edn., Para 490, p. 364....
Building contract
Building contract, 'A building contract means a contract for the building of anything--not necessarily a house, but any other physical construction', Carlisle R.D.C. v. Carlisle Corporation, (1909) 1 KB 471 (483).Building contract, is a contract by which a person (commonly called contractor) undertakes for consideration to carry out works of or for construction (or demolition) for another person (commonly called the employer or owner), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 301, p. 276; Carlisle RDC v. Carlisle Corpn., (1999) 1 KB 471; Gilbert Ash (Northern) Ltd. v. Modern Engineering (Bristol) Ltd., (1974) AC 689: (1973) 3 All ER 195....
building code
building code based on agreed upon safety standards within a specific area, a building code is a regulation that determines the design, construction, and materials used in building. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Building lease
Building lease, a lease of land for a long term of years, usually 99, at a rent called a ground rent, the lessee covenanting to erect certain buildings thereon according to specification, and to maintain the same, etc., during the term. At the end of the term, the land, with the buildings upon it, reverts to the lessor and his assigns. By 45 & 46 Vict. c. 38, s. 2(10)(iii), a building lease is defined as a lease for the erecting and improving of, and the adding to and the repairing of, buildings, and by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 205, as a lease for building purposes or purposes connected therewith. Such leases of settled land are regulated by the Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 44, and (as to leases by mortgagees), by s. 99, sub.-ss. 58 (3), (9) and (10) of the (English) L.P. Act, 1925. See the (English) Landlord and Tenant Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 36), s. 2(1), in connection with a tenant's claim for compensation for improvements....
Multi-storeyed building
Multi-storeyed building, means a building constructed on any land, containing four or more apartments, or two or more buildings in any area designated as a block, pocket or otherwise, each containing two or more apartments, with a total of four or more apartments in all such buildings, and includes a building containing two or three apart-ments in respect of which a declaration has been made under the proviso to s. 2. [Delhi Apartment Ownership Act, 1986 (58 of 1986), s. 3(5)]...
Part of a building
Part of a building, the interpretation put by the Kerala High Court on s. 2(1) of the Kerala Buildings (Lease and Rent Control) Act, 1965 for holding that the words 'part of a building' mean the land on which the building has been constructed is not correct. The provisions of the State Rent Act clearly show that the State Rent Act is a self-contained Act and the rights and liabilities of landlord and tenant are determined by the provisions contained therein and not by the provisions of the Transfer of Property Act or any other law. The rights of a landlord under the general law are substantially curtailed by the provisions of the State Rent Act as the Act is designed to confer benefit on tenants by providing accommodation and to protect them from unreasonable eviction, Vannattankandy Ibrayi v. Kunhabdulla Hajee, (2001) 1 SCC 564 (576)....
The building is bona fide required by the landlord
The building is bona fide required by the landlord, the phrase 'the building is bona fide required by the landlord' for the immediate purpose of demolition and reconstruction occurring in s. 14(1)(b) of the Act refers to bona fide requirement of the landlord and the requirement in terms is not that the building should need immediate demolition and reconstruction, Metalware and Co. v. Bansilal Sarma and Co., AIR 1979 SC 1559 (1562): (1979) 3 SCC 398: (1979) 3 SCR 1107....
Taxes on lands and buildings
Taxes on lands and buildings, 'taxes on lands and buildings' should be construed as taxes on land and taxes on buildings and there is no reason for restricting the amplitude of the language used in the Entry, Assistant Commissioner of Urban Land Tax v. Buckingham and Carnatic Co. Ltd., AIR 1970 SC 169 (177): (1969) 2 SCC 55: (1970) 1 SCR 268. [Constitution of India, Sch. III, List II, Entry 49]...
House, shop or building
House, shop or building, includes any premises appurtenant to the building (English) Riot (Dam-ages) Act, 1886, s. 9 [Halsbury's Law of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 36, para 242]....
Public Building
Public Building, include building used or cons-tructed or adopted to be used as place of public worship, or as hospital, college, school, hotel, restaurant, public lecture room, public exhibition, etc. or used or constructed or adopted to be used either ordinarily or occasionally for any other similar public purpose said public purpose is not relatable to use of land by government but user thereof which is means for public at large, AIR 2006 (NOC) 568 (P&H)....
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