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unoccupied

Defined in 3 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Abbott (1879)

United States Code

12 U.S.C. § 1715Z — in this section

The term “unoccupied” means, with respect to a residential property, that the unit of general local government having jurisdiction over the area in which the project is located has certified in writing that the property is not inhabited.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Unoccupied means no one has the actual use or possession. 153 111. App. 33. Unoccupied and vacant are words of the same import. 87 Mich. 188; 49 N. W. 480. UNGUES (Law Fr.) Still; yet. This barbarous word is frequently used in pleas, as UNQUE8 PRIST (Law Fr.) Always rea Sr- The same as "wnowt ptiaiJ'

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

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.