Building
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An edifice erected by art and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance, connected together, and designed for use in the position in which it is so fixed. Taken in its broadest sense, it can mean only an erection intended for use and occupation as a habitation, or for some purpose of trade, ornament, or use.
13 Gray (Mass.) 312.
A bridge (11 Wis. 119), a floating dock (2 Vroom [N. J.] 477), seats or platforms in a park (55 Cal. 159; 39 Conn. 41) have been held not to be buildings, while an unfinished house (L. R. 1 C. C. 338), a stable (94 Ill. 456), a church (10 Pa. 413) are buildings.