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HALL. A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Dadak's outfit is not on Bournemouth University's letting agents list, but with offices right under a hall of residence he still finds custom.

Sorted: Student rent shark gets third degree

But it could soon be the end of an era for the historic Pantycelyn Hall of Residence in Aberystwyth, which is earmarked for closure.

Closure looms for historic student halls of residence; Haven for Welsh language at end of useful life as accommodation

Bangor magistrates heard that drunken Gareth Symes, 18, had sparked a bomb alert in a late-night phone call to the city's Bryn Dinas hall of residence where he lived on October 1.

Bomb prank went wrong

Hall of Residence: 2000 - pounds 35 2001 - pounds 35

Wills is sent to raise our rent; Accommodation prices hit the roof in St Andrews

A STUDENT has been found dead at her university hall of residence after her family raised the alarm when they hadn't heard from her.

Mystery death of student

Also included in the new ensemble is an administrative building and, about a piazzetta to the south-west, a hall of residence and sculpture building for the Atlanta College of Art.

North light in the deep south: Renzo Piano's series of additions to Atlanta's High Museum sensitively revitalise a major arts institution

Solihull-based construction firm Bluestone has won a pounds 6.9 million contract with Unite Group to build a student hall of residence in Coventry.

Bluestone to build student hall

A student tutor who was inside the hall of residence heard glass being smashed and a security guard saw two men, one of whom was Browne, carrying drawers containing DVDs.

Students hall raider locked up

Police swooped to collar a gang of sneak thieves who raided a Teesside university hall of residence.

Uni thieves collared

Andrew Tucker, 19, was with three friends when the elevator stopped at the first floor of their hall of residence. He went to step out when it dropped 5ft.

LIFT CRUSH MAN DIES

They immediately sealed off the Garrochy House hall of residence and blasted the building with toxic chemicals.