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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

In a provision of a fire policy, that buildings unoccupied shall not be covered by the policy, does not include a house used by the insured and his servants, only to take their meals in while carrying on an adjacent farm; nor to a barn used only to store hay and farming tools. Ashworth v. Builders' Mut. Fire Lis. Co., 112 Mass. 422. " Unoccupied," in a law regulating taxes, was held equivalent to " untenanted," in State V. Reinhardt, 31 N. J. L. 218.