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Home Dictionary Name: keeping houseKeeping house
Keeping house, confining oneself within the privacy of home to defeat creditors; an act of bankruptcy. See BANKRUPTCY....
Disorderly houses
Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751 (25 Geo. 2, c. 36), by which prosecutions by indictment of persons keeping 'bawdy houses, gaming houses, and other disorderly houses' for the Common Law misdemeanour of keeping such houses are encouraged, and see also s. 13 of the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 69), as amended by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 3, and the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922, s. 3, by which the keeping of bawdy houses is punishable on summary conviction, see Siviour v. Neapolitane, (1931) 1 KB 636; (lessee who sub-let not included); and Winter v. Woolfe, (1931) 1 KB 636 (premises kept for allowing illicit intercourse). See BROTHEL; GAMING....
Innkeeper
Innkeeper, means a person who, for compensation, keeps open a public house for the lodging and entertainment of travellers. A keeper of a boarding house is usually not considered an innkeeper, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 792.Innkeeper, proprietor of a common inn for the accommodation of travelers in general.All persons are deemed innkeepers who keep houses where a traveler is furnished, for profit, with everything which he has occasion for whilst on his way. They are bound to take in all travelers and wayfaring persons, and to entertain them for a reasonable time [see Lamond v. Richard, (1897) 1 QB 541] if they can accommodate them, at a reasonable charge, provided they behave themselves properly; and they have a lien upon the goods of their guests for board and lodging, but may not detain their persons or seize their clothing in actual wear. They are also liable for any loss of or injury to goods, money, and baggage of their guests; and responsible for the acts of their serva...
Bar of the House
Bar of the House, in the Lok Sabha, the Bar consists of a wooden Bar placed between two pillars near the door which opens into the Central aisle facing the Speaker and which connects the benches on either side of the aisle. Before an offender is brought to the Bar of the House, the Speaker makes an announcement about it in the House and emphasizes the solemnity of the occasion and asks the members to keep total silence in order to maintain the dignity and authority of Parliament and to emphasise the significance of the reprimand. Thereafter he orders the watch and ward officer to bring the offender in. He is brought in and he stands at the Bar. The Speaker then reads out to reprimand after which he makes the offender to withdraw Lok Sabha Debates, Vol. Lvii, 1961, p. 5501.In the House of Lords, the bar is a wooden barrier which excludes persons who are not peers. Parliamentary Dictionary, L.A. Abraham & S.C. Hawtrey, 1956, p. 24.Bar of the House, in the House of Commons, the Bar consis...
Common gaming house
Common gaming house, 'common gaming house' means--(i) in the case of gaming--(a) on the market price of cotton, opium or other commodity or on the digits of the number used is stating such price, or(b) on the amount of variation in the market price of any such commodity or on the digits of the number used in stating the amount of such variation, or(c) on the market price of any stock or share or on the digits of the number used in stating such price, or(d) on the occurrence or non-occurrence of rain or other natural event, or(e) on the quantity of rainfall or on the digits of the number used in stating such quantity, or(f) on the pictures, digits or figures of one or more playing cards or other documents or objects bearing numbers, or on the total of such digits or figures, or on the basis of the occurrence or non-occurrence of any uncertain future event, or on the result of any draw, or on the basis of the sequence or any permutation or combination of such pictures, digits, figures, n...
Common gambling house
Common gambling house, according to the defini-tion means: 'any house' walled enclosure, room or place in which cards, dice, tables or other instruments of gaming are kept or used for the profit or gain of the person owning, occupying, using or keeping such house, enclosure; room or place, whether by way of charge for the use of the instruments of gaming, or of the house enclosure, room or place, or otherwise howsoever. Explana-tion. The wore 'house' includes a tent and all enclosed space', State of Andhra Pradesh v. K. Satyanarayana, AIR 1968 SC 825: (1968) 2 SCR 387. [Hyderabad Gambling Act, 1305F, (2 of 1305F)]...
Refreshment House
Refreshment House, a house, etc., 'kept open for public refreshment, resort, and entertainment between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.' (24 & 25 Vict.c. 91, s. 8), to keep which an Inland Revenue licence only is required, unless wine, etc., be sold therein, in which case a licence from the justices of the peace is required also. See also (English) Refreshment Houses Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 27), and 39 & 40 Vict. c. 16, s. 4, as to wine licences and subsequent (English) Licensing Acts, and 10 Edw. 7 & 1 Geo. 5, c. 24, s. 1, as to the certificates of justices. See PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT; Chit. Stat., tit. 'Refreshment House....
Gaming house
Gaming house, Gaming house would mean any house, room, tent etc. whether enclosed or open or any place whatsoever in which the instrument of gaming are kept or used for profits or gains by the person occupying, using or keeping such house, room, tent etc. whether by way of charge or otherwise, M.J. Sivani v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1995 SC 1770 (1772): (1995) 8 SCC 289....
carriage house
a small building usually near a large residence or part of an estate used for keeping coaches carriages or other vehicles also called coach house It is now 1998 obsolescent and its function has been taken over by the garage which is usually attached to a residence or main building Carriage houses are still found on older estates though not usually used for their original purpose...
Muniment-house or muniment-rooms
Muniment-house or muniment-rooms, a house or room of strength, in cathedrals, collegiate churches, castles, colleges, public buildings, etc., purposely made for keeping deeds, charters, writings, etc., 3 Inst. 170....
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