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Messuage

A dwelling house with the adjacent buildings and curtilage and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household

Nunnery

A house in which nuns reside a cloister or convent in which women reside for life under religious vows See

VerbarOdelsthing

The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing See Legislature

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VerbarOssuarium

A charnel house an ossuary

Labourers' dwellings

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

debt-to-income ratio

debt-to-income ratio a comparison or ratio of gross income to housing and non-housing expenses; With the FHA, the-monthly mortgage payment should be no more than 29% of monthly gross

hud

hud the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; established in 1965, HUD works to create a decent home and suitable living environment for

Increase of Rent and Mortgage (Restrictions) Acts (English)

the protection to tenants and mortgagees of dwelling-houses afforded by the later Acts was made necessary by the housing shortage, caused principally by the economic effects of the war. The Courts (Emergency Powers) Act,1914 (4 & 5

Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)

are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; improvement of towns; housing of the Working Classes (Housing Act, 1925 (15 Geo. 5, c. 14), s. 89), as amended by s.

Improvement area

Improvement area. Local authorities who have passed a resolution under the provisions of the (English) Housing Act, 1930, s. 7, declaring an area (under conditions similar to those indicated in regard to clearance areas)

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