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Home Dictionary Name: dwelling Page: 4 Page 4 of about 192 results ( seconds)Mixed hereditament
Mixed hereditament, means a hereditament which is not a domestic hereditament but in respect of which it appears to the rating authority or is determined that the proportion of the rateable value of the hereditament attributable to the part of the hereditament used for the purposes of a private dwelling or private dwellings is greater than one-eight. Any part of the hereditament used for the letting of rooms singly for residential purposes, whether by way of tenancy or licence and with or without board or other services or facilities, or used as sites for movable dwellings, is to be treated as used for purposes other than those of a private dwelling or private dwellings, Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th Edn., Vol. 39, para 192, at p. 169....
Residential premises
Residential premises, 'residential premises' are not only those which are let out for residential purposes nor does the expression cover all kinds of structures where humans may manage to dwell. The art of building is advanced far enough to make a building serve a residential, commercial or other use. Whatever is suitable or adaptable for residential uses, even by making some changes, can be designated 'residential accommodation', Busching Schmitz (P) Ltd. v. P.T. Menghani, AIR 1977 SC 1569 (1576): (1977) 2 SCC 835: (1977) 3 SCR 312.Residential premises are not only plots which are let out for residential purposes nor do all kinds of structures where humans may manage to dwell are residential. Use or purpose of the letting is no conclusive test. Whatever is suitable or adaptable for residential use, even by making some changes, can be designated residential premises, S.P. Jain v. Krishna Madan Gupta, AIR 1987 SC 222 (227): (1987) 1 SCC 191....
Sojourn
To dwell for a time to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger not considering the place as a permanent habitation to delay to tarry...
Borderer
One who dwells on a border or at the extreme part or confines of a country region or tract of land one who dwells near to a place or region...
Torrens' Act
Torrens' Act, the repealed Artisans' and Labourers' Dwellings Act, 1868. See LABOURERS' DWELL-INGS....
Frumstol
Frumstol, original or paternal dwelling, Anc Inst. Eng....
Furniture
Furniture, the expression 'furniture' has a wide connotation and includes all those articles which are used in a dwelling house or a place of business and commerce or a public building to furnish the establishment, New Chelur Manufactures v. CCE, (1998) 9 SCC 140 (141).Refers to movable items such as desks, tables, chairs, required for use or ornamentation in a house or office. Ordinarily, furniture is not something immoveable or fixed in a position that can be removed only by cannibalizing, Craft Interiors Pvt. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, 2006 (9) JT 491: 2006 (11) SCALE 78: 2006 (8) Supreme 789: 2006 (8) SLT 49: 2006 (206) ELT 529....
Gun
Gun. The Gun Licence Act, 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 57), in which 'gun' includes a firearm of any descrip-tion and an air-gun or any other kind of gun from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged,' grants to the Crown 'for every licence to be taken out yearly by every person who shall use or carry a gun in the United Kingdom the sum of 10s.' By s. 6 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1883, licences expire on July 31st after date. Licences are registered by the inland revenue officers who grant them, and must be produced to such officers on demand. For using a gun without licence except in a dwelling-house, the fine is 10l., but there are six exemptions, being of (1) persons in the naval, military, or volunteer service in discharge of their duty; (2) licensees to kill game; (3) persons carrying such licensee's gun, by his order and for his use, and giving his name and address as well as his own on request of inland revenue officer or constable, or owner or occupier of...
Ham
Ham, a place of dwelling; a home close; a little narrow meadow, Blount....
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
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