tenement house

tenement house
A multiple dwelling, ordinarily housing people of very limited means or persons on welfare, usually several stories high, and containing many separate apartments or tenements, usually involving the use of bath and toilet facilities in common by the tenants of several tenements. Lignot v Jeakle, 72 NJ Eq 233, 65 A 221. A building, the different rooms or parts of which are let for residence purposes by the possessor to others, its distinct tenements, so that each tenant, as to the room or rooms occupied by him, would sustain to the common landlord the same relation that the tenant occupying a whole house would sustain to his landlord. See Rose v King, 49 Ohio St 213, 30 NE 267. A building continuing three separate apartments on separate floors, each rented by the owner to a separate family, is a "tenement house" within the meaning of a statute providing that the owner of every tenement house shall provide for the lighting of all public halls at night. Gibson v Hoppman, 108 Conn 401, 143 A 635, 75 ALR 148.

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