House Burning - Law Dictionary Search Results
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House-burning. See ARSON....
Burning of house
Burning of house, outhouses, etc. See ARSON, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97), ss. 1 et seq...
burn out
To burn till the fuel is exhausted as when the candle burned out the room was totally dark the firefighters couldnt control the oil tank fire and had to let it burn out by itself...
free burning
burning in a continuous manner of an electric arc as heat transfer to the anode in free burning arcs...
House, Houses
House, Houses, See Special Reference No. 1 of 2002 (In Re Gujarat Assembly Matter, (2002) 8 SCC 237. [Constitution of India, Article 174(1)]As to what will pass under a grant of a 'house,' see St. Thomas's Hospital v. Charing Cross Ry.Co., (1861) 1 J. & H. at p. 404, per Wood, V.-C.; Co. Litt. 5 b. As to a devise of a 'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills.Malicious injuries to houses by tenants, or by means of explosive substances, are punishable by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), ss. 9 and 13.'House 'under the Public Health 1936 Act, s. 43, means a dwelling-house, whether private or not; under the Housing Act, 1936, s. 187, includes any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances; under the Rent Restriction Acts, 1920-1935, a dwelling-house means a house let as a separate dwelling or a part of a house being a part so let (1933, s. 16); for other definitions, see respective statutes.The word 'house' would in its ordinary sense include any building irrespect...
Housing of the working classes
Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...
Burn
To consume with fire to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire frequently intensified by up as to burn up wood...
Burning
That burns being on fire excessively hot fiery...
Burning in the hand
Burning in the hand. See BRANDING....
Burning to death
Burning to death, an ancient punishment (1) of women for petty treason, last inflicted for murder of a husband in 1726; (2) of any person for heresy. See H'RETICO COMBURENDO, DE...
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