Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    A part of a house occupied by one person while the rest is occupied by another or others. See 10 Pick. (Mass.) 293.

  • Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    A part of a house occupied by a person, while the rest ls occupied by another or others. As to the meaning of this term, see 7 Man. & G. 95; 6 Mod. 214; McMillan v. Solomon, 42 Ala. 356, 94 Am. Dec. 654; Commonwealth v. Estabrook, 10 Pick. (Mass.) 293; McLellan v. Dalton, 10 Mass. 190; People v. St Clair, 38 CaL 137.