...objected that, having regard to the above facts, the subject of the respondent's occupation was not a part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling and separately rated to the relief of the poor within the meaning of the 61st section of the Representation of the People Act, 1867. The Revising...

...People Act 1867, we find that dwelling house is defined as including any part of a house which is " occupied as a separate dwelling," and " separately rated to the relief of the poor," that is, which possesses the two characteristics which, as we have pointed out, we should expect to...

...more extended one. He was of opinion that it was there used in the former sense. The Act provides that any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling and separately rated, shall be a dwelling house, and thereby pointe to the paso of a person being entitled to vote as an...

...civitatibus burgis, sive villis, aut " to serve in Parliament; "—to ' Dwelling House,' that " it shall include any part of a house occupied " as a separate...and separately rated to " the relief of the poor." And to the ' Begistration Acts,' that " they shall mean the Act of the " Sixth year of the Reign of...

...committee, but to the detriment of the law ; and so the Bill now stands declaring a dwelling-house to be " any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling, and separately rated to the relief of the poor." It differs from the existing legal definition in this important particular, that a house must now be...

...inhabitant occupier, as owner or tenant, of any dwelling-house within the. borough, (which includes any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling, and separately rated to the poor,) and has complied with the requisitions of the act as to the poor rates. And by the 4th section,...

...believed the hon. Gentleman's proposal was to substitute for " building," <fec., " any part of a bouse occupied as a separate dwelling and separately rated to the relief of the poor." He hoped the Committee would understand that nothing was further from his wish than to intrude upon...

...months people had been raining definitions .upon him. For the present we agreed that it should mean " any part of a house occupied as a separate dwelling, and separately rated. Even that is not clear. Is the "part, or the "house " to be occupied ? On the discussion of the Boundary...

...Acts, and as a lodger is termed a " tenant," and a '' dwelling-house" defined (s. 61, post, p. 109), to include any part of a house occupied as a separate...dwelling, and separately rated to the relief of the poor, and as a lodging means part of a house -occupied as a residence, all that will be necessary in order...

..."dwelling-house," unless there is something in the • ooutext repugnant to such construction, shall include •any part of a house occupied as a separate...dwelling, and separately rated to the relief of the poor. • These two sections taken together make, as may be observed, a neat argumentative circle, and the...