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Dwelling place
Dwelling place, primarily the expression means 'residence', 'abode' or 'home' where an individual is supposed usually to live and sleep and since the expression has been used in a Taxing Statute in the context of a provision which lays down a technical test of territorial connection amounting to residence, the concept of an abode or home would be implicit in it. In other words, it must be a house or a portion thereof which could be regarded as an abode or home of the assessee in the taxable territories, C.I.T., Madras v. Ratnaswamy, AIR 1980 SC 525 (529): 1980 2 SCC 548....
home invasion
home invasion : the crime of entering a dwelling and committing or with intent to commit a crime (as assault) while armed and while another is lawfully present ...
Labourers' dwellings
Labourers' dwellings. Prior to 1890 the following five sets of enactments provided for the erection and maintenance of healthy 'labourers' dwellings,' the first three of the five being materially amended by the (English) Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 72):(1) The (English) Labouring Classes Lodging Houses and Dwelling Houses Acts, 1851, 1866, and 1867. These Acts might be 'adopted' by the town council of a borough and other local authorities. Upon the adoption of the Acts, corporate land might be appropriated and lodging-houses erected thereon, or money might be borrowed by the local authorities for erecting such houses on other land.The (English) Act of 1885 amended the procedure for adopting these Acts, allowed land to be bought for the purpose of the Acts, and allowed separate houses to be erected under the process of the Acts.The (English) Act of 1885 took away from an owner, required to demolish such dwellings, the power which he had under these Acts of...
House
House, means any hut, shop, warehouse, workshop, masonry or framed. [Manipur Municipalities Act, 1994 (43 of 1994), s. 2(22)]A home, dwelling, or residence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 743.The expression 'the house' will also include the land appurtenant thereto. Further, building includes the land on which it stands, unless by express stipulation. It is excluded, Jai Narain Parasrampuria v. Pushpa Devi Saraf, (2006) 7 SCC 756; T. Lakshmipathi v. P. Nithyananda Reddy, (2003) 5 SCC 150, see Aiyar P. Ramanatha: Advanced Law Lexicon, Vol. 2, 2005, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 19A, Benedic v. Ocean Ins. Co., 31 NY 389 (394)....
Dwelling house
Dwelling house, according to Webster's Comprehen-sive Dictionary, the expression 'dwelling house' means a house built for habitation, a domicile. In law it may embrace the dwelling itself and such buildings as are used in connection with it. According to Black's Law Dictionary (Sixth Edn.), under statute prohibiting breaking and entering a 'dwelling house' the test for determining if a building is such a house is whether it is used regularly as a place to sleep, Narasimha Murthy v. Susheelabai, (1996) 3 SCC 644 (660). (Hindu Succession Act, 1956, s. 23)Includes any building or part of a building which is occupied as a dwelling and any yard, garden, garage or outhouse belonging to the dwelling house and occupied with it, Insolvency Act, 1986, s. 385(1) (UK), Halsbury's Laws of England 3(2), para 390, p. 208....
dwelling
dwelling : a structure where a person lives and esp. sleeps called also dwelling house see also burglary NOTE: Courts disagree as to how permanent or consistent the habitation of a structure must be in order for it to be considered a dwelling, but most courts agree that a dwelling includes its curtilage. ...
Maintains or has maintained for him a dwelling place
Maintains or has maintained for him a dwelling place, 'maintains a dwelling place' connotes the idea that the assessee owns or has taken on rent or on a mortgage with possession a dwelling house which he can legally and as of right occupy if heis so minded, during his visit to British India,S.M. Zackariah Sahib v. Commissioner of Income-tax, AIR 1953 Mad 85 (86). [Income-tax Act, 1922, s. 4A(a)(ii)]...
home schooled
Receiving or having received formal education especially primary or secondary education at home rather than in a school The instruction at home may be accomplished by parents or by professionals who come to the home as home schooled students often get higher test scores than those educated in schools...
Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home
Psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home, means a hospital or, as the case may be, a nursing home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for the treatment and care of mentally ill person and includes a convalescent home established or maintained by the Government or any other person for such mentally ill persons; but does not include any general hospital or general nursing home established or maintained by the Government and which provides also for psychiatric services. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2 (q) ]...
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