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Lodging houses for the labouring classes

Lodging houses for the labouring classes. See LABOURERS' DWELLINGS.

Keeping house

Keeping house, confining oneself within the privacy of home to defeat creditors; an act of bankruptcy. See BANKRUPTCY.

Outer House

Outer House. See SESSION, COURT OF.

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Parliament House

Parliament House. The buildings comprising the courts, etc., of the Court of Session in Edinburgh.

House hold

House hold, the word household signifies a family living together, Oswal Agro Mills v. CCE, AIR 1993 SC 2288

Penitentiary-houses

Penitentiary-houses, prisons where criminals were confined to hard labour. See the repealed 19 Geo. 3, c. 74, and GAOL.

Public-House

Public-House. See PUBLICANS.

Spinning-house

Spinning-house, a place of confinement in Cambridge to which the University authorities might, by virtue of the University Charter (confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 29), commit public women and others suspected of evil. See Kemp v....

House, shop or building

House, shop or building, includes any premises appurtenant to the building (English) Riot (Dam-ages) Act, 1886, s. 9 [Halsbury's

Custom-house agents

Custom-house agents were persons authorized by the Commissioners of Customs to act for parties at their option in the entry or clearance of ships, and the transaction of general business. They have been abolished for very...

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