Premises - Indian Laws - General

Premises The meanings of the word premises in various lexicons and dictionaries are given below: Wharton s Law Lexicon: Premises is often used as meaning land or houses . Cochran s Law Lexicon, IV Edition: Premises means houses or lands Black, H.C., Law Dictionary , IV Edition: Premises as used in the estates means- (i) lands and tenements; an estate; land and buildings thereon; the subject-matter of the conveyance; (ii) a distinct and definite locality and may mean a room, especially building or other definite area; Earl Jowitt, Dictionary of English Law: Premises. ........... from this use of the word, Premises has gradually acquired the popular sense of land or buildings. Originally, it was only used in this sense by laymen, and it was never so used in well-drawn instruments, but it is now frequently found in instruments and in Acts of Parliament as meaning land or houses, e.g., the Public Health Act, 1875, s. 4, where premises includes messuages, buildings, lands, easements, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure...... Ballentine, J.A., Law Dictionary with Pronunciation, II Edition: Premises - as applied to land, Webster s New International Dictionary defines the word as follows: The property conveyed in a deed; hence, in general, a piece of land or, real estate; sometimes, especially in fire insurance papers, a building or buildings on land; the premises insured. It is therefore clear that the word premises is a; generic term meaning open land or land with buildings or buildings alone. ARDESHIR H. BHIWANDIWALA VERSUS THE STATE OF BOMBAY - 1961 (1) TMI 70 - SUPREME COURT