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In old Scotch law. A flue or penalty for not obeying the proclaina-tion made for warfare. Skene

In old Engllsh law. A species of mllitary servlce, or knlght’a fee. Cowell

In English’law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land

In old Engllsh law. A sort of garment. Cowell

In Saxon law. offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five to commit- depredations

In Scotch law. A glft or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as a token of reverence. Skene

In old records. A court or yard for drawing up guards or mllitary retinue. Cowell

This word simply de-notes time past, ln distinction from time present or time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v. Thayer, 40 Conn. 157

A general, leader, or commander; also a baron of the realm. Dn Fresne

In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total de-nlal of Christianity, but of some of its essen-tlal doctrines, publicly and obstinately avow-ed. 4 Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on dlvlne subjects devised by human reason, openly taught, and obstinately maintained

A hired soldier who departs withont license. 4 Inst 128.

Heir; an heir. A form of haeres. very common in the civil law. See HjEBES

An archdeacon. Cowell

Followers of nn army

A place of retlre-ment for hermits. Mon. Angl. tom. 3, p. 18

Sax. In old English law. A tribute or tax levied for the maintenance of an army. Spelman

A heriot, (q. v

Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, (profcctio militaris;) an expedition. Spelman

That which Is the sub

Things capable of being inherited, he it corporeal or incorpo-real. real, personal, or mixed, and inclnding not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir-looms, nnd certain furniture which, by custom, mny descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Neills v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453. 35 […]

In Sicilian and Neapolitan law. That whlch ls held by heredi-tary right; the same with hercditamentum (hereditament) in English law. Spelman

The royal edict summoning the people to the field. CowelL

In old English law. A proclamation summoning the army into the field

A word of futurity, always used ln statutes aud legal documents ss indicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past Chapman v. Holmes, 10 N. J. Law, 26; Tremont & S. Mills v. Lowell, 165 Mass. 265, 42 N. E. 1134; Dobbins v. Cragin, 50 N. J. Eq. 640, 23 AU. 172; […]

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. pt 3

In the clvll law. To *be divided. Familia hcrcixcundo, an inherlt-ance to be divided. Actio famili# herds-fund#, an action for dividing an inheritance. Erciscunda is more commonly used in the civil law. Dig. 10, 2; InsL 3, 28, 4; Id. 4, 6, 20

In old English law. Harrowing; work with a harrow. Fleta, llb. 2, c. 82, $ 2

To harrow. 4 Inst. 270

A harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 77

or HERBURY. An lnn

Harbored or enter-talned in an lnn. Cowell

Lodgings to receive guests ln the way of hospitality. CoweU

or HARBINGER. An

The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to after-math or second cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 459

The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the pa-per of causes for hearing

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger tvho carried messages between kings or states, and especially proc-lamatlons of war, peace, or truce. In English law, a herald is an ofiicer whose duty is to keep genealogical lists and tables, ad-Just armorial bearings, and regulate the cer-emonies at royal coronations and funerals

In Saxon law. The servlce of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord

Henry the old, or*Elder. Klng Henry I. ls so called in anclent English chronicles and charters, to dis-tinguish hlm from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman

Sax. In old Engllsh law. An acquittance from a flne for hanglng a thief. Fleta, llb. 1, c. 47, | 17

In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book

A customary payment of money Instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. CowelJ

A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781

A word of futurity, whlch, as employed ln legal documents, stat-utes, and the llke, always imports a con-tinuity of action or condition from the pres-ent time forward, hut excludes all the past Thomson v. American Surety Co., 170 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 1073; opinion of Chief Justice, 7 Pick. (Mass.) 128, note

or HELMELBORCH

A Saxon brass coin, of the value of a half-penny

The end-wall covering and defendlng the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573

Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing a crest; the tiller or haudle of the rudder of a ship

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as the best of furniture, horses, cows, etc., but not funglhles. Bell

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heir and hls ancestor