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Home Dictionary Name: common lodging houseCommon lodging-house
Common lodging-house. See LODGING HOUSES, COMMON....
Lodging houses, common
Lodging houses, common. The term is defined in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 235, as 'meaning a house (other than a public assistance institution), provided for the purpose of accommodating by night poor persons, not being members of the same family, who resort thereto and are allowed to occupy one common room for the purpose of sleeping or eating, and include, where part only of a house is so used, the part so used.' As to the test of sleeping and having meals in a common room, see the judgment of Cozens-Hardy, L.J., in this case, and Longdon v. Broadbent, (1877) 37 LT 434. As to this use by persons of the poorer classes, see also L.C.C. v. Hankins, (1914) 1 KB 490. The Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 76 et seq., provided for their might be kept only by registered keepers. These provisions were amplified and rendered more stringent by Part V. of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53). Both these enactments are repealed and replaced by Part IX. ...
Hostel or lodging house
Hostel or lodging house, means a building or a part of a building where lodging, with or without board or other services, is provided for a monetary consideration. [Delhi Rent Act, 1995 (33 of 1995), s. 2(d)]...
Hotel or lodging house
Hotel or lodging house, means a building or a part of a building where lodging, with or without board or other services, is provided for a monetary consideration. [Delhi Rent Act, 1995 (33 of 1995), s. 2(d)]...
Lodging houses for the labouring classes
Lodging houses for the labouring classes. See LABOURERS' DWELLINGS....
Common gaming house
Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--(i) in the case of gaming--(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, n...
Common gambling house
Common gambling house, according to the defini-tion means: 'any house' walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure; room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming, or of the house enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. Explana-tion. The wore 'house' includes a tent and all enclosed space', State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana, AIR 1968 SC 825: (1968) 2 SCR 387. [Hyderabad Gambling Act, 1305F, (2 of 1305F)]...
Lodger
Lodger, a tenant, with the right of exclusive possession, of a part of a house called lodgings, the landlord, by himself or an agent, retaining general dominion over the house itself.Lodgings may be let in the same manner as lands and tenements; in general, however, they are let either by agreement in writing or verbally. An executory verbal agreement may be void by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 40; and see Edgev Strafford, (1831) 1 C. & J. 391, as being a contract in relation to land, and a written agreement is often desirable to avoid dispute.Lodgers in rooms which have been let as a separate dwelling to them, unfurnished, may be tenants of a dwelling-house for the purpose of the (English) Rent Restrictions Acts, 1920, 1935, and if that dwelling or the house of which the rooms form parties not decontrolled, their tenancy is within those Acts (see INCREASEOF RENT). As to rent-books generally, in small houses, see (English) Housing Act, 1936, s. 4, and Part IV of that Act...
Doss house
A cheap lodging house...
Houses of Parliament
Houses of Parliament, are the two chambers of a bicameral Parliament, namely, the Upper House and the Lower House, Dictionary of Constitutional and Parliamentary Terms, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 2005, Edn., p. 207.The two Houses of British Parliament are (1) the House of Lords, and (2) the House of Commons; each House has distinctive duties, A Dictionary of Law, Willium C. Anderson, 1889, p. 747....
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