Hawkins, 62 Tex
437; Innerarity v. Mims, 1 Ala. 669; Sands v. Hill, 55 N. ¥. 18; Pirie y. Chicago Title & Trust Co., 182 U. 8. 438, 21 Sup. Ct. 906, 45 L. Ed. 1171.
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HEAD-PENCE. An exaction of 40d
of more, collected by the sheriff of Northumberland from the people of that county twice in every seven years, without account to the king. Abolished in 1444. Cowell. i
HEADLAND
HEAD. Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or principal source of a stream.
HEMOLDBORH, or HELMELBORCH
A title to possession. The admission of this
Henderson v. Hunter, 59 Pa
340.—Statute of limitations. A statute prescribing limitations to the right of action on certain described causes of action: that is, declaring that no suit shall ‘be maintained on-such causes of action unless brought within a specified period af...
HERALD
HERALD. In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carried messages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, or truce. In English law, a herald is an officer whose duty is to keep genealogical lists and tables...
HEREDITAMENTS
HEREDITAMENTS. Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir toge...
HIDALGUIA
good situations in life, (de buenos lugures,) and possessed of property, (algo.) White,
HIGHER AND LOWER SCALE. In
the practice of the English supreme court of judicature there are two scales regulating the fees of the court and the fees which solicitors are entitled to charge. The lower scale applies (unless the court otherwise or-
HIS HONOR
en, as a title of honor and courtesy, to the governors of the other states and to the president of the United States. It is also customarily used by foreign ministers in addressing the secretary of state in written communications.
HOC
Lat. This. Hoc intuitu, with this expectation. Hoc loco, in this place. Hoc nomine, in this name. Hoc titulo, under this title. Hoc voce, under this word.
Hoff. Land (or Hoff
L.©.). l Hoffman’s Land Cases, United States District Court. Hoff. Lead. Cas. Hoffman’ 8 Leading Cases on Commercial Law. _, Hoff. Mast. Hoffman’ s Master in Chan- Hoff. N. Y. (or Hoffm. Oh.). ‘New- York Chancery Reports. - Hog. Hogan’ 8 I...
HOLD
2. To be the grantee or tenant of another; to take or have an estate from another. Properly, to have an estate on condition of paying rent, or performing service.
HOLD, v
1. To possess in virtue of a lawful title; as in the expression, common in grants, “to have and to hold,” or in that applied to notes, ‘the owner and holder.”
HOMAGE
HOLDES. Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman. the latter sitting, and held his hands extended and joined between the hands of the lord, and said: “I become your man [homo] from this day forward, of life and limb and earthly honor, and ...
HOMESTEAD 576
louse and the adjoining land, where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. The fixed residence of the head of a family, with the land and buildings surrounding the main house. See Oliver v. Snowden, 18 Fila. 825, 43 Am. Rep. 338; In re Allen (...
HOOKLAND
earls, and the children of viscounts and bar-
HOT-WATER ORDEAL
Hostes sunt qui nobis vel quibus nos bellum decernimus; cseteri proditores vel preedones sunt. 7 Coke, 24. Enemies are those with whom ‘we declare war, or who declare it against us; all others are traitors or pirates. °
Hour Law
2 R. I. 608, 54 Atl. 602, 61 L. R. A. 612.—MNon-judicial day. One on which process cannot ordinarily issue or be served or returned and on which the courts do not ordinarily sit. Whitney v. Blackburn, 17 Or. 364, 21 Pac. 874, 11 Am. St. Rep. 857. M...
HOUSE
1. A dwelling; a building de signed for the habitation and residence of “House” means, presumptively, a dwelling- recisely this. Daniel v. Coulsting, 7
Houst
(Del.) 8, 30 Atl. 640. (Del.) 334, 16 Atl. 558, 2 L. R. A. 724. Specific devises are devises of lands particularly specified in the terms of the devise, as opposed to general and residuary devises of land, in which the local or other particular desc...
How. Prac
(N. Y.) 220; Abell v. Brady, 79 (N. Y.) 278; Horgan v. McKenzie (Com. Pl.) 17 N. Y. Supp. 174; Dyckman v. (N. Y.) 23; Young v. Hargrave, 7 (N. Y.) 62. (N. Y.) 170; Com. v. Sheriff. 4 Serg. & R. (Pa.) 276; Regents of University of Maryland v. Will...
Hse. Jenk. Cent
119. The custom of the kingdom of England is the law of England.
Hun, 214, 6 N. Y. Supp
844;) machinery, (Machinery Co. v. Brady, 60 Ill. App. 379);) writ or recognizance, (State v. Lavalley, 9 Mo. 886; McArthur v. Boynton, 19 Colo. App. 234, 74 Pac. 542;) or title, (Copertini v. Oppermann, 76 Cal. 181, 18 Pac. 256.)
Hurst, 103 Fed
231, 43 C. C. A. 193.—Common-law cheat. The obtaining of money or property by means of a false token, symbol, or device; this being the definition of a cheat or “cheating”? at common law. State v. Wilson, 72 Minn, 522, 75 N. W. 715; State v. Re...
HUSBAND
HUNDREDORS. In.English law. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, anciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court. Persons impaneled or fit to be impaneled upon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the cause of action arose. and ins...
HYDAGE. Sec HIDAGE
HYDROMETER. An _ instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being immersed in fluids, as in water, brine, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of their density, or their specific gravity, and thence their quality. See Rev. St. U. 8. ...
HYPOTHECA
that year, and over the cattle and stocking on the farm: for the current year’s rent, which last continues for three months after the last conventional term for the payment of the rent. Bell.
HYPOTHEO
HYBERNAGIUM. In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
which the subject-matter .is not defivered into the possession of the -pladgee or pawnee ; or, conversely, a: eonventional right. existing {n one person over specific property of another, which consists: in: the: power..to cause - a sale of the same,...