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Floor or ground
Floor or ground, also include floor of the car or vehicle, Collector of Central Excise, Kanpur v. Matador Foam, (2005) 2 SCC 59....
downstair
on or of the lower floors of a building especially the ground floor as the downstairs or downstair phone the house has no downstairs bathroom Opposite of upstairs...
Bungalow
Bungalow. Generally, a building on a single, or ground floor, the roof meeting the walls enclosing that floor, either with or without gables, but the space under the roof may be utilised; see Ward v. Paterson, (1929) 2 Ch 396 (restrictive covenant).Bungalow, is a building of which the walls, with the exception of any gables, are no higher than the ground floor, and of which the roof starts at a point substantially not higher than the top of the wall of the ground floor, regardless of the manner in which the space left in the roof is used, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Ward v. Paterson, (1929) 2 Ch 396.Means primarily a one storey building, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Clothier v. Snell, (1966) 198 Estates Gazette 27....
Residential house
Residential house, must be treated as including a flat constructed above the commercial plot on the ground floor. This will be so even if originally the plot was allotted for commercial purposes, if incidentally construction of residential plot above the ground floor, commercial plot is permitted as per the plans, Chandigarh Housing Board v. Narinder Kaur Makol, AIR 2000 SC 2616Residential house, includes flats constructed over commercial premises on ground floor, Chandigarh Housing Board v. Narinder Kaur Makal, (2000) 6 SCC 415: AIR 2000 SC 2616....
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....
Basement
The outer wall of the ground story of a building or of a part of that story when treated as a distinct substructure See Base n 3 a Hence The rooms of a ground floor collectively...
Corticine
A material for carpeting or floor covering made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber...
Entresol
A low story between two higher ones usually between the ground floor and the first story mezzanine...
hodometer
A device for measuring the length of a path consisting of a wheel of known circumference attached to a rod held in the hand and pushed along a surface which is usually the ground or a floor The number of times the wheel makes a complete circle multiplied by the circumference is a measure of the length of the path traversed It may be used to measure distances on curved as well as straight paths A variant which registers the miles and rods traversed is sometimes used by surveyors...
Leg bridge
A type of bridge for small spans in which the floor girders are rigidly secured at their extremities to supporting steel legs driven into the ground as piling or resting on mudsills...
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