Terms beginning with "H" (328 total)

Hams, Pers. Prop

4,) and is either in possession or in action. See the following titles. —Chose local. A local thing; a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. Kitchin, fol. 18; Cowell; Blount.—Chose transitory. <A _ thing which is mova...

Handy, 4 Md. Ch

237.—jLawful authorities. The expression ‘“Jawful authorities,” used in our treaty with Spain, refers to persons who exercised the power of making grants by authority of the crown. Mitchel v. U. S., 9 Pet. 11, 9 ...

HANG

HAND DOWN. An appellate court is said to “hand down’ its decision in a.case, when the opinion is prepared and filed for transmission to the court below. determined. is time it were made an end of.”

HARES

of heirs, come the heirs of heirs to infinity. HERESCHIP. In old Scotch law. Theft or robbery. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 2, pp. 26, 89.