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• i all that use - Ma would you say they constitute

two houses, or separate tenements

definition of a house just now.

You gave the

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It is very hard.

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I did not expect you would answer right off, because it

depends on what tenement is. Well, supposing one man

occupied this building in question, and he has got his

doors in it, and the Government puts one number on it,

as one tenement, would you still maintain there were

house?

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A. The place would still have two entrances, and two stair

cases giving access to it. Unless you remove one, it

is very improbable that the foveranent would give it

one number in such a case.

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where you only give one nusbar ?

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With separate stair cases, I am not aware of it.

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According to your ruling, would that not apply to a

house, having a front door and a back door, with

separate stair cases ↑

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A.

No.

If it has two separate entrances ?

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No, but one at the front, and the other at the back.

These both are at the front.

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All that does not make any difference as far as the

chance of catching fire is concerned. Your reason for

saying it is two houses is because of fire ?

No, my reason for objecting to this class of partition

is not because of fire.

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But you admit that that class of partition, if it were 184445

all in one oocutution, and he shut up one statr case,

could be admitted. It would not contravene the law ?

There is a doubt in my mind whether this section 98

does not cover 11.