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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...


Infrastructure

Infrastructure, 'infrastructure' includes structures such as docks, wharves, jetties, landing stages, locks, buoys, inland ports, cargo handling equipment, road and rail access and cargo storage spaces, and the expression 'infrastructure facilities' shall be construed accordingly. [Inland Water Ways Authority of India Act, 1985 (82 of 1985), s. 2(f)]Means the underlying framework of a system; esp., public services and facilities (such as highways, schools, bridges, sewers, and water systems) needed to support commerce as well as economic and residential development, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 784.Includes industrial, commercial or social infrastruc-ture for the development of a Special Economic Zone, West Bengal Special Economic Zone Act, 2003, s. 2(g).Includes industrial, commercial or social infrastruc-ture or any amenity for the development of the zone, Rajasthan Special Economic Zones Develop-ment Act, 2003, s. 2(g)...


Justices

Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...


Land

Land, in its restrained sense, means soil, but in its legal acceptation it is a generic term, comprehend-ing every species of ground, soil or earth, whatso-ever, as meadows, pastures, woods, moors, waters, marshes, furze and heath; it includes also houses, mills, castles, and other buildings; for with the conveyance of the land the structures upon it pass also. And besides an indefinite extent upwards, it extends downwards to the globe's centre, hence the maxim, Cujus est solum ejus est usque ad c'lum et ad inferos; or, more curtly expressed, Cujus est solum ejus est altum. See Co. Litt. 4 a.In an (English) Act of Parliament passed after 1850 'land' includes messuages, tenements and hereditaments, houses, and buildings of any tenure, Interpretation Act, 1889, s. 3. By the Law of Property Act,1925, s. 205(1)(ix.), 'land' for the purposes of the Act includes land of any tenure, and mines and minerals, whether or not held apart from the surface, buildings or parts of buildings (whether th...


Thika tenant

Thika tenant, 'thika tenant' means any person who holds, whether under a written lease or otherwise, land under another person, and is or but for a special contract would be liable to pay rent, at a monthly or at any other periodical rate, for that land to that another person and has erected or acquired by purchase or gift any structure on such land for a residential, manufacturing or business purpose and includes the successors in interest of such person, Jnan Ranjan Sen Gupta v. Arun Kumar Bose, AIR 1975 SC 1994 (1995): (1975) 2 SCC 526: (1976) 1 SCR 105. [Calcutta Thika Tenany Act (20 of 1949), s. 2(5)]...


Noise sensitive structures

Noise sensitive structures, means structures that require a quiet environment such as hospital, schools, government offices, research institutions and residential buildings, Noise Pollution (V), (In re:) (2005) 5 SCC 733....


Occupation

Occupation, also is employed as referring to that which occupies time and attention; a calling; or a trade; and it is only as employed in this sense that the word is discussed in the following paragraphs.There is nothing ambiguous about the word 'occupation' as it is used in the sense of employing one's time. It is a relative term, in common use with a well-understood meaning, and very broad in its scope and significance. It is described as a generic and very comprehensive term, which includes every species of the genus, and encompasses the incidental, as well as the main, requirements of one's vocation calling, or business. The word 'occupation' is variously defined as meaning the principal business of one's life; the principal or usual business in which a man engages; that which principally takes up one's time, thought, and energies; that which occupies or engages the time and attention; that particular business, profession, trade, or calling which engages the time and efforts of an ...


Occupying

Occupying, a person must be deemed to be occupying a residential building at the time of an application for eviction if any of the members of his family including dependants reside in the building with his permission and on his account, though physically he himself might not be residing therein, Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim v. Syed Ahmed Khan, AIR 1950 Mad 556 (557)....


Place of public entertainment

Place of public entertainment, includes any place to which the public are admitted and in which an entertainment is provided or held. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (c)]Means a lodging house, boarding and lodging house or residential hostel and includes any eating house or other place in which any kind of liquor or intoxicating drug is supplied (such as taven or a shop where beer, spirit, arracact, toddy, ganja, bhang or opium is supplied) to the public for consumption in or near such place. [Delhi Police Act, 1978 (34 of 1978), s. 2(l2)]...


Raiyat

Raiyat, means a person who holds land for commercial, residential or industrial purpose or for whatever purpose but does not include a lessee of Government land. [Kolkata Land Revenue Act, 2003, s. 2(i)]Raiyat, the word 'Raiyat' means a person who holds land for purpose of agriculture, AIR 1972 Cal 381 (383). [West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1956, s. 2(10)]...


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