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A term applied in the civU law to cases where a law was repeated, or laid down in the same terms or to the Bame effect, more than once. Cases of Iter* ation and repetition. 2 Kent, Comm. 489, note

In the oivil law

In modern civil law. To approve; to confirm; as a court homologates a proceeding. See Homologation. Literally, to use the same words with an-other; to say the like. Viales v. Gnrdenler, 9 Mart. O. S. (La.) 324. To assent to what another says or writes

In the civil law. To confirm or approve; to consent or assent; to confess. Calvin

In Spanish law. The tacit consent and approval inferred by law from the omission of the parties, for the space of ten days, to complain of the sen-tences of arbitrators, appointment of syndics, or assignees of insolvents, settlements of successions, etc. Also the approval given by the judge of certain acts and agreements for the […]

Lat. A man; a human being, male or female; a vassal, or feudal tenant; a retainer, dependent, or servant

Fr. In feudal law. Fendal tenants; the same with horn

Fr. Man; a man. This term is defined by the Civil Code of Louisiana to include a woman. Article 3522, notes 1, 2

In old English law. The maiming of a man. Blount

In English law. A writ which lay to replevy a man out of prison, or out of the custody of any private person, in the same manner that chat-tels taken in distress may he replevied. Brown

In old English law. A writ directed to a corporation, re-qulring the members to make choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed for statutes merchant, when a former ls dead, according to the statute of Acton Burnell. Reg. orig. 178; wharton

A writ to take him that had taken any bond man or woman, and led him or her out of the country, so that he or she could not be replevied accordlng to law. Reg. orig. 79

The mustering of men; the doing of homage

Lat Homicide, (q. v

The killing of any human creature. 4 Bl. Comm. 177. The killing of one human being by the act, procurement, or omission of another. Pen. Code N. Y. 8 179. The act of a human being In taking away tbe

Pertaining to homicide; relating to homicide; impelling to homicide; as a homicidal mania. (See Insanity

The home place; the place where the home is. It is the home, the

A mansion-house. Dlck-inson v. Mayer, 11 Heisk. (Tenn.) 521

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or HOMME. L. Fr. Man; a man

In Spanlsh law. The judge of a district Also an arbitrator chosen by the parties to a suit Also a man in good standing; one who ls competent to testify in a suit

L. Lat. Homage, (q. v

A wrlt to the escheator commanding him to de-liver seisin of lands to the heir of the king’s tenant, notwithstanding his homage not done. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 269

one who does or is bound to do homage. Cowell

In feudal law. A service (or the ceremony of rendering it) which a tenant was bound to perform to his lord on receiving investiture of a fee, or succeeding to it as heir, in acknowledgment of the ten-ure. It is described by Littleton as thc most honorable service of reverence that a free tenant might […]

In eccleslastlcal law. The orders of bishops, (Including archbish-ops,) priests, and deacons in the Church of England. The Roman canonists had the or-ders of bishop, (in which the pope and arch-bishops were included,) prlest, deacon, sub-deacon, psalmist, acolyte, exorcist, reader, ostiarius. 3 Stepb. Comm. 55, and note a

Sax. In old English law. A wood or grove. Spelman; Cowell; Co. Litt. 4b

A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with hls own hand. Estate of Billings, 64 Cal. 427, 1 Pac. 701; Harrison v. weatherby, 180 111. 418, 64 N. E. 237

In Spanish law. A holograph. An Instrument (particularly a will) wholly ln the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so wrltten by hls own hand

An Island ln a river or the sea. Spelman

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some important event ln history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usual operations of business are suspended and the courts closed, and, generally, no legal process ls served

In English law. A piece of land held under a lease or slmllar tenancy for agricultural, pastoral, or slmllar pur-poses

Sax. In Saxon law. A mll-ltary commander. Spelman

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check ls the person who bas legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of trans-ferring it, by indorsement or delivery, and who is entitled to receive payment of the instrument from the party or parties liable to meet it. Bowling v. […]

A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinlte contents, but usually containing from one hundred to one hundred and forty gallons, webster

or HOGIETU8. A hog or

In old English law. A hill or mountain. In old English, a how. Qrene hoga, Grenehow. Domesday; Spelman

A name applled to a statute which comprises a medley of incongruous subjects

This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants and bondmen might solemnize the day on which the English conquered the Danes, being the second Tuesday after Easter week. Cowell

A hoke, hole, or less-er pit of salt. Cowell

Lat This he is ready to verify.

Let. (This Indeed is exceedingly hard, bat so the law ls written; such is the written or positive law.) An observation quoted by Blackstone as used by Ulplan in the civil law; and applied to cases where courts of equlty have no power to abate the rigor of the law. Dig. 40, 9, 12, 1; […]

In old Engllsh law. Light horsemen or bowmen; also certain tenants, bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion, or such like peril, towards the seaside. Cam* den, Brit

A measure of welght in use ln wales, equal to 168 pounds, being made up of four welsh pecks of 42 pounds each. Hughes v. Humphreys, 26 Eng. L. & Eq. 132

In Engllsh law. An ancient gild or fraternity at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who dealt in sea coal. St. 21 Jac. L c. 3

In Saxon law. A fine for being present at an unlawful assembly. Spelman

In Saxon law. An unlawful assembly from eight to thirty-five, inclusive. Cowell

Sax. The benefit of the law. Du Cange

Sax. In Saxon law. The crime of betraying one’s lord, (proditio domini;) treason. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 301

In old English law. A hide of land