Terms beginning with "H" (328 total)

Haskins, 26 Vt

200.—Equitable estoppel (or estoppel by conduct, or in pais) is the species of estoppel which equity puts upon a person who has made a false representation or a concealment of material facts, with knowledge of the fact...

HASTA

Lat. A spear. In the Roman law, a spear was the sign of a public sale of goods or sale by auction. Hence the phrase “haste subjicere” (to put under the spear) meant to put up at auction. Calvin.

Hatch, 78 Me

23; Roberts v. State Bank, 9 Port. (Ala.) 315.—Supra protest. In mercantile law. <A term applied to an acceptance of a bill by a third, person, after protest for nonacceptance by the drawee. 3 Kent, Comm. 87.—Waiver ...

HAUSTUS

Lat. In the civil law. A ‘species of servitude, consisting in the right to draw water from another’s well or spring, in which the ctcr, (right of way to the well or spring,) so far as it is necessary, is tacitly incl...

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HAZARD

a common herd of cattle of a town; 80 called because he was to see that they did not break or injure the hedges of inclosed grounds. His duty was also to impound trespassing cattle, and to guard against pound-breaches. K...

HEALTH

Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of personal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129, 134. As to injuries affecting health, s...

HEALTHY

Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system pecu- Harly susceptible or liable to disease or ce} ily ailment. Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 356.

HEAT OF PASSION

are regulated by local laws.—PubHe health. As one of the objects of the police power of the state, the “public health” means the. prevailingly healthful or sanitary condition of the general body of people or the co...

Heathcock

57 Wis. 89, 15 N. W. 9; Gordon v. State, 2 Tex. App. 154; U. S. v. Warren, 12: Ok]. 350, 71 Pac. 685.—Olerk of enrollments. In DPnglish law.. The former chief officer of the English enrollment office, (c. v.) He now fo...

HEAVE TO

engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter. <A state of mind contradistinguished from a cool state of the blood. State vy. Wiene...

HEIR

Mecca, which happened on Friday, July 16, A. D. 622, under the reign of the Emperor Heraclius. Wharton. have fallen to him by legal succession. 1 Forb.

HEIR-LOOMS

HEIR-LOOMS. Such goods and chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go by special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the executor. The termination “loom” (Sax.) signifies a limb o...

Heisk

(Tenn.) 186. It means due process of law warranted by the constitution, by the common law adopted by the constitution, or by etatutes passed in pursuance of the constitution. Mayo v. Wilson, 1 N. H. 53.—Law of the road...