Ruinous Buildings

RUINOUS BUILDINGS. The owner of a. ruinous wall in any building is responsible for any accident occasioned by its fall, alter having received duo warning and requisition to pull It down, and a person building a crooked wall is responsible for the damage occasioned by its falling. But the owner of a ruinous house is not responsible for accidents occasioned by the fall of any article from it, unless such article belong to him. (Hidayah, Grady’s Ed., pp. 664, 666.)

Based on Hughes, Dictionary of Islam