...own cooking upon the premises, or by more than two families upon a floor, so living and cooking and having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets, or privies, or some of them" (see 1865). The state's first comprehensive housing law, it sets new standards for building construction...

...provided the house in question is by pleading and proof shown to be a tenement house. The statute (§ 2) provides: "A 'tenement house ' is any house or...1904, and the building was completed thereafter, and that in the department a violation was filed against its use without certificate. Therefore the house...

...the term "tenement house." According to the Tenement House Act of New York it is defined as follows: A tenement house is any house or building or portion...yards, water-closets or privies, or some of them. In the building ordinances of the city of Chicago, a tenement or apartment house is denned to be "Any...

...of one another, and doing their cooking upon the premises, or by more than three (3) families on a floor, so living and cooking, but having a common...yards, water-closets, or privies, or some of them. "A lodging house within the meaning of this ordinance shall be held to include any house or building,...

...families or morn living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises, 'and having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-clos'e-ts or privies, or some of them, and for the purposes of this [act] chapter shall be construed to include any building on llic same...

...the use in common of certain public parts of the building, as theretofore expressed in the law, viz. "having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, waterclosets, or privies, or some of them," was eliminated from the law, so as to make it plain beyond any question of doubt that the term "tenement...