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1
the legislative body in a province of British North America, usually the lower of two bodies, the upper, called the Executive Council, sometimes being included in the designation.
See: House of Assembly(def. 1a)
Quotations
1825
A corn broom, or a hot brick, has turned the House of Parliament out of doors, and here is the Gazette, threatening destruction to the market-square, some windy morning.
1893
Baldwin audaciously insisted that a member of the House was not entitled to the privilege of non-arrest, as it was a House of Assembly only, and not a House of Parliament.
2
the chamber or building in which such an assembly meets.
See: House of Assembly(def. 2)
Quotations
1904
When Lord Elgin gave the royal assent to the Indemnity Bill, he was not with the mob that . . . burned the house of parliament. . . .