Category: H

Sax. A lord. 1 Spence, Ch. 86

Lat. These being witnesses. The attestation clause in old deeds and charters

In legal use, this term always restricts the matter in connection with which it Is employed to a period of time already passed. Mason v. Jones, 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 479

A title given by the con-stitution of Massachusetts to the lieutenant-governor of that commonwealth. Const Mass. pt. 2, c. 2, { 2, art. 1

In English law

Hiring ls a contract by which one person grants to another either the en-joyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant, during a certain time, for a stipulated compensation, or where one contracts for the labor or services of another about a thing hailed to […]

In old English law

One who hlres a thing, or the labor or services of another person. Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 L. R. A. 262

See Hcbciscunda

In Spanish law. A mortgage of real property

In old English law. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday

or HIND. In old English law. A husbandry servant

The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, nnd admlnis-tered by the government of British Indla

In English law. A term of court, beglning on the 11th and ending on tbe 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which begin January 11th, and end on the wednes-day before Easter

A collection of orders and forms extensively modifying the plead-ing and practice in the English superior courts of common law, established in Hilary term, 1834. Stimson

In Spanish law. A receipt given by an heir of a decedent, setting forth what property he has received from the estate

In English law. A hawker or peddler. A person who carries from door to door, and sells hy retail, small articles of provisions, and the like

A bandit; one who robs travelers upon the highway

In

A sum of money pald by a villein or servant to save himself from a whipping. Fleta, L 1, c. 47, | 20

In old English law. A place of protection; a sanctuary. St 1 Hen. VII. cc. 5, 6; CowelL

In old Engllsh law. A measure of land, being as much as could be worked wlth one plow. It is variously estimated at from 60 to 100 acres, but was probably de-termlned by local usage. Another meaning was as much land as would support one family or the dwellers in a mansion-house. Also a house; […]

In Spanish law. Nobility hy descent or lineage, white, New Recop. b. 1, tit 6, c. 8, | 4

In Spanlsh law. A noble; a person entltled to the rights of noblllty. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from

An extraordinary tax formerly payable to the crown for every hlde of land. This taxation was levled, not ln money, but provlslon of armor, etc. Cowell

The season for sowing winter corn. CowelL

A hay-net; a net for catching conies. CoweU

In old records. A customary burden upon lnferlor tenants, for mend-lng or repalrlng hays or hedges

Sax. In old English law. A surety, (warrantus

In Roman law. A company, society, or college

The head of a rellglous house; the head of a college; the ward* en of a corporation

or HESTHA. A little loaf of bread

In old records. Com or grain glven or devoted to rellglous persons or purposes. 2 Mon. Angl. 367b; CoweU

An easement Du Cange

Thls was a composition in money for the custom of supplying herrings for the provision of a religious house, wharton

In old Engllsh taw. A day’s work wlth a harrow. Spelman

A harrow. Spelman

L. Fr. A herald

or HERNASIUM

A heron. CowelL

See Conn

A great lord. Jacoh

In medical juris-prudence. A person of doubtful or double sex; one possessing, really or apparently, and ln more or less developed form, some or all of the genltal organs of both sexes

In Spanish law. A fra* ternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected -by men in power. Bouvier

In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Eames, Eq. Pref

In tbe oivil law. Every species of immovable whlch can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., ln whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no. 472

Capable of being taken by descent A . term chiefly used In Scotch law, where lt enters lnto several phrases

The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spelman

Laying down of arms. Blount Desertion from the army. Spelman

A division of household goods. Blonnt