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under statutes of descent and distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of a person on becoming a poor person in a particular parish, to which is attached a right,

Newly set up establishment

'establishment' as given in Webster International Dictionary includes inter alia 'an institution or place of business, with its fixture and organised staff; as, large establishment, a manufacturing establishment'. 'Establishment' therefore means the whole trading, business or manufacturing

hickey

A device used to adapt a lighting fixture for mounting in an outlet box or on a pipe

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Chandelier

A candlestick lamp stand gas fixture or the like having several branches esp one hanging from the ceiling

bathtub

A relatively large tub used to take a bath usually a permanent fixture in a bathroom it is an open container that is filled with water in which a person immerses

barndoor

An opaque adjustable flap on a lamp fixture used in photography to cut off light from particular areas

chattel

an item of immovable property (as land or a building) that is less than a freehold estate compare fixture NOTE: Interests that are considered chattels real have been treated by the common law as personal property despite

Gas burner

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices

appurtenance

appurtenance [Anglo-French apurtenance, alteration of Old French apartenance, from apartenant appurtenant] : property (as an outbuilding or fixture) or a property right (as a right of way) that is incidental to a principal property and that

Mixed subjects of property

things real, but which are attended nevertheless with some of the legal qualities of things personal, as emblements, fixtures, and shares in public undertakings connected with land. Besides these, there are others which, though things personal in

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