Category: H

In English law. A port, wharf, or small haven to embark or land merchandise at Cowell; Blount

The Caesarean opera-tion. See Cjksabeaw Sbction

Those who, hav-ing been thought dead, had, after a long absence ln foreign countries, returned safely home; or those wbo, having been thought dead in battle, had afterwards unexpectedly escaped from thelr enemies and returned home. These, among the Romans, were not permitted to enter their own houses at the door, bnt were received at […]

A paroxysmal disease or disorder of the nervous system, more common ln females than males, not originating in any anatomical lesion, due- to psychic rather than physical causes, and attended, in the acute er convulsive form, by extraordinary manifesta-tions of secondary effects of extreme nervous-ness

In old English law. A par* Ish

A com-binatlon of assumed or proved facts and cir-cumstances, stated ln such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon whicli the oplnion of an expert is asked, by way of evldence on a trial. Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. 441; People v. Durrant, 116 […]

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the pros-ecution, on a criminal trial, or by the de-fense, as on explanation of the facts ln evi-dence, aud a ground for inferring guilt or ln-nocence, as the case may be, or as indicating a probable or posslble motive for tbe crlme

In French lnw. Hy-pothecatlon; a mortgage on real property; the right vested ln a creditor by the assign-inent to hlm of real estate as security for the payment of hls debt, whether or not lt be accompanied by possession. See Clv. Code La. art 3360

A bond giv-en ln the contract of bottomfy or respondentia

A term borrowed from the civil law. In so far as It Is nat-urailzed in English and American law, it means a contract of mortgage or pledge in

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a credit-or by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin, 136 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. CL 1024, 34 I* Ed. 372

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In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a peculiar lividity of the cadaver

See Insanity

In tbe civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to hls wife, at his death, above her dowry

In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the pa-tient susceptible to suggestion at the will of another

An instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being ira-mersed in fluids, as in water, brines beer, brandy, etc., lt determines the proportion of thelr density, or their specific gravity, and thence their quality. See Rev. St U. S. S 2918 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 1927

See Hidage

A mongrel; an animal foriu-ed of the nnlon of different species, or dif-ferent genera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the union of persons of different races

In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The lnnd on which such grain was sown. The grain It-self; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell

In old English law. Augury; divination

Taxes. Mon. Angl. 1. 586

Hue and cry. See Hui ano Cbt

Councll; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from belng held within a building, at a time -when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local court The county oourt in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, winchester, Lincoln, and ln other pla-ces similar to the London […]

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence

In oid records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount

He who holds house and land. Bract L 3, L 2, c. 10

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. Spelman

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 308

Agriculture; cultivation of the Soil for1 food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 516 ; McCue v. Tunstead, 65 Cal. 506, 4 Pac. 510

In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 35b

In Spanish law. Theft white. New Recop. b. 2, tit 20

DUS, or HORTUS. A ram or

HYRST, HERST, or HIRST

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution.

A domestic; one of a family

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree npon any verdict

In English law. The Inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, an-ciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court Persons impaneled or fit to be lm-paneled upon juries, dwelling wlthln the hundred where the cause of action arose. Cromp. Jur. 217. It was formerly necessary to have some of these upon every panel of jurors. […]

DOR, or HUN-DREDES MAN. The presiding officer ln the hundred court Anc. Inst Eng

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred

Under the Saxon orgauiza-tion of England, each county or shire corn-prised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten titMngs, or groups of ten families of freeholders or frank-pledges. The hundred was governed by a high constable, and had its own conrt; but its most remarkable feature was the corporate responsibility of the whole […]

A moist place. Mon. Angl

In old records. A hilL 2 Mon. Angl. 292; Cowell

In old records. A hulk or small vessel. CowelL

ln French law. Marshals; ushers; process-servers; sheriffs* officers. Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal servlce of process required by law ln actions, to issue executions, etc., and to maintain order during the sitting of the courts

In Spanish law. A* meas-ure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow in one day. 2 whlte, Recop. (38,) 49; Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet 443, 0 L. Ed. 1137

In old English law. A ioud outcry with which felons (such as rob-bers, burglars, and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard lt were hound to take up, and join ln the pursuit, nntll the malefactor was taken. Bract fols. 115b, 124; 4 BL Comm. 293

In old pleading. Hither-to. 2 Mod. 24

A petty dealer and retailer of small articles of provisions, particularly farm and garden produce. Mays ?. Cincln-natl, 1 ohlo St 272; Lebanon County v. Kline, 2 Pa. Co. CL R. 622