Definition of Dwelling house

1. Noun. Housing that someone is living in. "They raise money to provide homes for the homeless"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Dwelling House

dweebs
dweeby
dwell
dwell on
dwell time
dwell times
dwell upon
dwelled
dweller
dwellers
dwellest
dwelleth
dwelling
dwelling-place
dwelling-places
dwelling house (current term)
dwelling place
dwelling places
dwellinghouse
dwellinghouses
dwellings
dwells
dwelt
dweomer
dweomercraft
dwere
dwi-
dwile
dwile flonking
dwiles

Literary usage of Dwelling house

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"Robbery in a Dwelling-House in the Day time, any Person being therein. t Sect. ... 9- " All and every person " or persons that shall rob any dwelling-house ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
"_ As common-law burglary is the breaking and entering of the dwelling house of another in the nighttime with intent to commit a felony, it is not a burglary ..."

3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"If the burglary be in an out-house, in law a part of the dwelling-house, it must be laid to be done in the dwelling-house, or in the stable, "*lte s case' ..."

4. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"The appellant was the tenant of a dwelling house ami shop, and a piece of ... The appellant is tenant of a dwelling house and shop, and a piece of ground in ..."

5. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"The term dwelling-house compre- Extent, hends nil buildings within the curtilage or inclosure (s), all under the same range of building and roof, ..."

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