Flat Cap - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flat capFlat cap
A kind of low crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England and continued in London after disuse elsewhere hence a citizen of London...
Barret
A kind of cap formerly worn by soldiers called also barret cap Also the flat cap worn by Roman Catholic ecclesiastics...
Flat
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,...
Phrygian cap
A close fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals assumed to have been conical in shape It has been adopted in modern art as the so called liberty cap or cap of liberty...
cap
cap a limit, such as one placed on an adjustable rate mortgage, on how much a monthly payment or interest rate can increase or decrease, either at each adjustment period or during the life of the mortgage. Payment caps do not limit the amount of interest the lender is earning, so they may cause negative amortization. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
rate cap
rate cap a limit on an ARM on how much the interest rate or mortgage payment may change. Rate caps limit how much the interest rates can rise or fall on the adjustment dates and over the life of the loan. Source: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
Snow capped
Having the top capped or covered with snow as snow capped mountains...
Cap of maintenance
Cap of maintenance, one of the regalia or ornaments of State belonging to the sovereigns of England, before whom it is carried at the coronation and other great solemnities. Caps of maintenance are also carried before the mayors of several cities in England....
Graduated flat rate
Graduated flat rate, The water rate imposed on houses where there is no water connection is known as 'graduated flat rate', Indore Municipal Corporation v. Gujarat Coop Housing Society Ltd., 1992 Supp (2) SCC 457: AIR 1992 SC 1506. [M.P. Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (23 of 1956),ss. 132(1)(d) and 162]...
Shop-cum-flat
Shop-cum-flat, the expression 'shop-cum-flat' does not always mean that the ground floor of the building is meant for shops and the first and the higher floors are residential accommodation in the building. The correct approach would be to refer to the context in which the expression appears and then construe it , Shabir Ahmad v. Sham Lal, AIR 2002 SC 1036 (1039): (2002) 3 SCC 118....
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