Apartment

A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others. 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214_; Woodfall, Landl. & Ten. 178. As to what is not an apartment, see 10 Pick. (Mass.) 293.

A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another or others. 7 M. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214; Woodf. L. & T. (1st Am. ed.) 6G0. "Apartments is a proper description of the landlord resides on the premises and retains the key of the outer door, is held a mere lodger, and is not a person occupying "as owner or tenant;" 7 M. & G. 85. If a house, originally entire, be divided into several apartments, with an outer door to each apartment, and no communication with each other, the several apartments shall lie rated as distinct mansion houses; but if the owner live therein, all the untenanted apartments shall be considered as parts of his house; G Mod. 214. A flat or flat house is a building consisting of more than one story in which there are one or more suites of rooms on each floor equipped for private house-keeping purposes. An apartment house is either a building otherwise termed a flat or it is a building divided into separate suites of rooms intended for residence, but commonly without facilities for cooking; Lignot v. Jaekle, 72 N. J. Eq. 233, 65 Atl. 221. By the lease of apartments in a building, in a town, for the purpose of trade, the lessee takes only such interests in the subjacent lands as is dependent upon the enjoyment of the apartments rented and necessary thereto; and if they are totally destroyed by fire, this interest ceases; Mc Millan v. Solomon, 42 Ala. 356, 94 Am. Dec. 654. See Cunningham v. Entrekin, 34 W. N. C. (Pa.) 353. In an indictment for "entering a room or apartment, with the intention to commit larceny," it is right to charge the ownership of the room to be his who rented it from one who had the general supervision and control of the whole house, and occupied the same as a lodger; People v. St. Clair, 38 Cal. 137. See Flat.

A room in a house; a part of a house.

A part of a house oecupied by a person, while the rest is occupied by another, or others. As to the meaning of this term, see 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214; 42 Ala. 356; 10 Pick. 293; 10 Maas. 190; 38 Cal. 137.