dilapidation
Britishnoun
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the state of being or becoming dilapidated
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(often plural) property law
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the state of disrepair of premises at the end of a tenancy due to neglect
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the extent of repairs necessary to such premises
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My Tenant's Advertisements of Ruins and Dilapidations often cast a Damp on my Spirits, even in the Instant when the Sun, in all his Splendor, gilds my Eastern Palaces.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
The river Arrow, which rises in the Lickey Hills, runs through the parish, towards Dilapidations of time.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell
In 1859 he was appointed to the post of County Surveyor of Norfolk, and afterwards became one of the diocesan surveyors under the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
Dilapidations had to be made good; debts necessarily incurred left little room for generosity.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
To place the law relating to dilapidations on a more satisfactory footing, the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act 1871 was passed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
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