Legal term
[Portugal] Ot: Edifício
A building is a permanent construction, with independent access, covered, limited by exterior walls or party walls from the foundations to the roof, intended for human use or other purposes.1
[Portugal] Ot: Prédio
Unit of land ownership, whether or not resulting from subdivision, owned by a natural or legal person, or in co-ownership, regardless of its classification as urban, rural or mixed.2
[Prague] Ot: budova
An aboveground structure, including its underground part, spatially concentrated and externally largely enclosed by perimeter walls and a roof.3
[Italy] Ot: Fabbricato o edificio
Building or edifice means any roofed construction, fixed to the ground with the most varied technologies, isolated from streets and empty spaces, or separated from other constructions by main walls rising without interruption from the foundations to the roof, having one or more free accesses to the street and having one or more independent staircases.4
[Ascoli Piceno] Ot: Edificio
Stable construction, having a roof and otherwise resting on or fixed to the ground, isolated from roads or open areas, or separated from other constructions by vertical structures rising seamlessly from foundation to roof, functionally independent, accessible to people, and intended for the satisfaction of enduring needs.5
1: Decreto Regulamentar n.º 5/2019, de 27 de setembro
2: Aviso n.º 14327/2009 Diário da República, 2.ª série — N.º 155 — 12 de Agosto de 2009 (Plano Diretor Municipal - Vila Nova de Gaia)
3: Prague building regulations
4: Gazzeta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana - Serie generale - n. 268 Quadro delle definizioni uniformi
5: Regolamento Edilizio Comunale