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Occupy, The word 'occupy' used in Rule 10(a) is not restricted either expressly or by anything contained in the context of the rule suggesting that the occupation is to be only for residential purposes, and in the absence of any such implication the rule must be deemed to be of general application i.e. it applies to uses non-residential as well as residential, Corporation of the City of Nagpur v. Nagpur Handloom Cloth Market Co. Ltd., AIR 1963 SC 1192 (1197): (1963) 2 Supp SCR 796. [City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1950 (2 of 1950)]In order to be in occupation of the demised premises, physical possession of the tenant therein is not an essential requisite for avoiding the penal con-sequences of ejectment, Buta Ram v. Balwant Singh, AIR 1989 P&H 17 (20)....
Establishment
Establishment, includes a shop, commercial estab-lishment, workshop, farm, residential hotel, restaurant, eating house, theatre or other place of public amusement or entertainment. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986, s. 2(iv)]1. The act of establishing, the state or condition of being established, 2. An institution or place of business, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 566.It includes any place where any industry is carried on [and where an establishment consists of different departments or have branches, whether situated in the same place or at different places, all such departments or branches shall be treated as part of that establishment. [Apprentices Act, 1961 (52 of 1961), s. 2(g)]It means a corporation established by or under a Central, Provincial or State Act, or an authority or a body owned or controlled or aided by the government or a local authority or a Government company as defined in s. 617 of the Companies Act 1956 and includes Departments of a Gove...
Flat
Flat. A set of rooms on one floor of a house usually let unfurnished in many separate flats, which for all legal purposes are separate houses. For the purposes of the Housing Act, 1936, defined as a separate and self-contained set of premises constructed for use for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part of a building from some other part of which it is divided horizontally, and 'block of flats,' a building which contains two or more flats and consists of three or more storeys exclusive of any storey which is constructed for use for purposes other than those of a dwelling. See Blackwell on the Law of Residential Flats; Woodfall, L. and T., and Forms in Appendix B. of that work.adj. without an allowance or charge for accused interest, Black's Law Dictionary, p. 652.A house in a larger block; an apartment, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 652.Flat, means a separate set of premises forming part of a building being a set of premises occupied wholly or mainly as a private dwelling,...
House, Houses
House, Houses, See Special Reference No. 1 of 2002 (In Re Gujarat Assembly Matter, (2002) 8 SCC 237. [Constitution of India, Article 174(1)]As to what will pass under a grant of a 'house,' see St. Thomas's Hospital v. Charing Cross Ry.Co., (1861) 1 J. & H. at p. 404, per Wood, V.-C.; Co. Litt. 5 b. As to a devise of a 'house,' see Theobald on Wills; Jarman on Wills.Malicious injuries to houses by tenants, or by means of explosive substances, are punishable by the Malicious Damage Act, 1861 (24 & 25Vict. c. 97), ss. 9 and 13.'House 'under the Public Health 1936 Act, s. 43, means a dwelling-house, whether private or not; under the Housing Act, 1936, s. 187, includes any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances; under the Rent Restriction Acts, 1920-1935, a dwelling-house means a house let as a separate dwelling or a part of a house being a part so let (1933, s. 16); for other definitions, see respective statutes.The word 'house' would in its ordinary sense include any building irrespect...
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