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To support a prosecution under Part IX, of the L melon County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1902 (2 Edw. VII., c. 173) for keeping a common lodging
house and receiving lodgers therein without a license, proof that the house
contains some kind of common rojm either for sleeping or eating is essential.
Unless such a room or rooms exists on the premises the house is not a common
lodging house.
The necessity of community of some kind, whether of eating or sleeping
accommodation, has not been displaced by Parker v. Talbot (1905) 2 Ch. 643 ;
4 L.G.R. 27 ; 75 L.J.Ch. 8, nor by the definition in section 3 of the Common
Lodging Houses Act, Ireland, 1860 (23 Vict., c. 26).
Logsdon v. Booth (1900), 1 Q.B. 401 ; 69 L.J.Q.B. 131, and Logsdon v.
Trotter (1900), 1 Q.B. 617; 69 L.J.Q.B. 312 explained.