Terms beginning with "H" (328 total)

HABEAS CORPORA JURATORUM

A writ commanding the sheriff to bring up the persons of jurors, and, if need were, to distrain them of their lands and goods, in order to insure or compel their attendance in court on the day of trial of a cause. It iss...

Habeas Corpus

Lat. (You have the body.) The name given to a variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the emphatic words,) having for their object to bring a party before a court or judge. In common usage, and whenever these wo...

HABENDUM

H Lat. In conveyancing. The clause usually following the granting part of the premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the ownership in the thing granted to be held and enjoyed by the grantee. 3 Washb. Real Prop....

HABERE

Lat. In the civil law. To have. Sometimes distinguished from tenere, {to hdld,) and possidere, (to possess;) habere referring to the right, tenere to the fact, and possidere to both. Calvin.

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HABERE FACIAS POSSESSIONEM

Lat. That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted to by the successful party in an action of ejectment, for the purpose of being placed by the sheriff in the actual possession of the land ...

HABERE LICERE

Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have the possession aad enjoyment. For a breach of this duty, an actio ex empto mig...

HABILIS

Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of authority of the king.) Du Cange.

Hag

(or Hagg.) Adm. Haggard’s English Admiralty Reports. (or Hagg.) Con. Consistory Reports. (or Hagg.) Ecc. Ecclesiastical Reports.

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heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against. all heretics who relapsed or who refused to abjure their opinions. It was repealed by the statute 29 Car. II. c. 9. Brown. This was also the name of a writ for...