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Housing of the working classes

provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners from any land subject only to the compensation available under Acquisition of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act,1919, … purposes of ss. 38 and 137 of the Act of 1936, the 11th Schedule defines a working man's dwelling as wholly or partly occupied by a person belonging to the working classes, and 'working class 'includes mechanics, … 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,

Magna Carta

After the fortess of Bedford had surrendered to them, and they were in possession of the metropolis, by private agreement with the citizens, the king sent a message to them to desire that a place and time … from the castle, then a competent house shall be forthwith provided for her, in which she may honestly dwell, until her dower be to her assigned, as it is aforesaid, and she shall have in the meantime

Salic, or Salique

the Salic law was established purely on account of the succession of the Crown, since it extended to private persons as much as to the royal family. The Salic law had not in view a preference of … of economy which gave the house, and the land dependent on the house, to the males who should dwell in it, and to whom it consequently was of more service. In proof of this, the title of

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Temple

Temple, is as 'an edifice or place regarded primarily as the dwelling place or 'house' of a deity; hence an edifice devoted to divine worship. Historically, the word is applied … the public character of the temple were factors that went to establish whether a temple was public or private, T.D. Gopalan v. Commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments, AIR 1972 SC 1716: (1972) 2 SCC 329:

Railway

Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, … and machinery, roads and streets, running rooms, rest houses, institutes, hospitals, water works and water supply installations staff dwellings and any other works constructed for the purpose of, or in connection with, railway; (e) all vehicles which … workshops, manufactories, fixed plant and machinery, roads and streets, running rooms, rest houses, institutes, hospitals, water works and water supply installations staff dwellings and any

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