Hip Roofed - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: hip roofedHip roofed
Having a hip roof...
Mansard roof
A hipped curb roof that is a roof having on all sides two slopes the lower one being steeper than the upper one...
Roof
The cover of any building including the roofing see Roofing and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof some writers call the vault the roof and the outer protection the roof mask It is better however to consider the vault as the ceiling only in cases where it has farther covering...
Hip
To dislocate or sprain the hip of to fracture or injure the hip bone of a quadruped in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side...
Curb roof
A roof having a double slope or composed on each side of two parts which have unequal inclination a gambrel roof...
Hip lock
A lock in which a close grip is obtained and a fall attempted by a heave over the hip...
Roofing
The act of covering with a roof...
Jerkinhead
The hipped part of a roof which is hipped only for a part of its height leaving a truncated gable...
Building
Building, defined by Lord Esher in Moir v. Williams, (1892) 1 QB 270, as an inclosure of brick or stone covered by a roof, and said by Park, J., in R. v. Gregory, (1833) 5 B. & Ad. At p. 561, not to include a wall; but the definition depends on circumstances, and may include a reservoir, Moran v. Marsland, (1909) 1 KB 744. The London Building Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), has no definition. The term 'new building' was defined in s. 23 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act,1907 (c. 53) (now repealed); and see also Southend-on-Sea Corporation v. Archer, (1901) 70 LJ KB 328; South Shields Corporation v. Wilson, (1901) 84 LT 267. An old railway carriage will be a 'new building' if the interior arrangements are altered, Hanrahan v. Leigh Urban Council, (1909) 2 KB 257. An advertisement hoarding is a building within a restrictive covenant, Nussey v. Provincial Bill Posting Co., (1909) 1 Ch 734; Stevens v. Willing & Co. Ltd., 1929 WN 53. See also Paddington Corporation v...
hipless
having hips which are not prominent seeming to have no hips as slim and hipless of people Opposite of broad hipped...
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