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Night-House

Night-House, the name sometimes given to a refreshment-house before the (English) Licensing Act, 1872. See PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT....


Lurking house trespass by night

Lurking house trespass by night, whoever commits lurking house-trespass after sunset and before sunrise, is said to commit lurking house-trespass by night. (Indian Penal Code, 1860, s. 444)...


Night Magistrate

Night Magistrate, a constable of the night; the head of a watch-house, Scots Term....


Public-House Closing Act, 1864

Public-House Closing Act, 1864 (English) (27 & 28 Vict. c. 64), an 'adoptive' Act whereby public-houses and refreshment houses, till then allowed to be open all night, were closed in boroughs and Improvement Act districts between 1 and 4 A.M. The Act has been repealed, and the matte is now dealt with by ss. 54-63 and Sch. VI. Of the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910, and amending Acts under the collective title, Licensing Acts, 1910 to 1934. See also REFRESHMENT HOUSE....


Lodging houses, common

Lodging houses, common. The term is defined in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 235, as 'meaning a house (other than a public assistance institution), provided for the purpose of accommodating by night poor persons, not being members of the same family, who resort thereto and are allowed to occupy one common room for the purpose of sleeping or eating, and include, where part only of a house is so used, the part so used.' As to the test of sleeping and having meals in a common room, see the judgment of Cozens-Hardy, L.J., in this case, and Longdon v. Broadbent, (1877) 37 LT 434. As to this use by persons of the poorer classes, see also L.C.C. v. Hankins, (1914) 1 KB 490. The Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 76 et seq., provided for their might be kept only by registered keepers. These provisions were amplified and rendered more stringent by Part V. of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53). Both these enactments are repealed and replaced by Part IX. ...


Third-night-awn-hinde

Third-night-awn-hinde [trium noctium hospes, Lat.]. By the laws of St. Edward the Confessor, if any man lay a third night in an inn, he was called a third-night-awn-hinde, and his host was answerable for him if he committed any offence. The first night, for-man-night, or uncuth (unknown), he was reckoned a stranger; the second night, twa-night, a guest; and the third night, an agen-hinde, a domestic. Bract. 1.3....


House breaking

House breaking, The crime of breaking into a dwelling or other secured building with intent to commit a felony inside, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 744. (Indian Penal Code, s. 445)See BREAKING-IN; and as to breaking in at night, see BURGLARY....


Nightly

Of or pertaining to the night or to every night happening or done by night or every night as nightly shades he kept nightly vigils...


Night

Night, the time of darkness between sunset and sunrise. Under the Night Poaching begins one hour after sunset, and ends one hour(English) s before sunrise. Under the (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 25 (see BURGLARY), and the (English) Factory Act, 1901, s. 156, night is between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m....


Night blooming

Blooming in the night...


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