A Dictionary of Law

A term applied to that spe Called, also, “butt.” cies of testimony given by a witness who re-

An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so called because they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c. 15; Jacob.

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the gouds of a thief, and j the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VILi. ¢. 5.

A week; a space of seven days.

A week's man; the eanon or prebendary in a cathedral church, who had the peeuliar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.

An engine to take fish in the river Ouse. 23 Hen, VUI. c. 18.

<A small haven, wharf, or landing place.

An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenant or lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 365.

A vagabond. priest in olden time.

The leadership of one among several independent confederate ! states.

The epoch or account of tims HEIR AT LAW Mahomet was compelled to escape from Mecea, which happened on Friday, July 16, A. D. 622, under the reign of the Emperor Heraclius. Wharten

The leader of the monks in the Greek Chureh.

Inold English law. Ev. 185. One of the services to be rendeved by a thane, Hearsay evidence is second-hand evibut in what it consisted seems uncertain, dence, as distinguished from

A young cow which has not hadacalf. 2 East, P. CG. 616.

At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship.

FORCED. One who cannot be disinherited. See Forcep Heirs.

IRREGULAR. In Louisiana, Irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. Sea Civil Code La. art. 874.

LEGAT In the civil law. A legal lieir is one who takes the succession by or conventional heir, who takes the succes. sion in virtue of the disposition of man. See Civil Code La. ar

An heir whose right of inheritance is indefeasible, provided he outlive the ancestor; as in England the eldest son, or his issue, who ronst, by the course of the common law, be hei

Im the civil law. One who hus accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. a Heirs are divided into two classes, according to the manner in which thay

In English law. One whose right of inheritance depends upon a particular and local custom, such as gavelkind, or borough English, Co. Litt. 140.

Onetowhom lands are devised by will; a devisee of lands. Answering to the h@res facius (q. 0.) of the civil law.

One who is not lineally related to the decedent, but is of collateral kin; e. g., his uncle, cousin, brother, nephew.

Inthecivil law. One who takes a succession by virtue of a contract or settlement entitling him thereto,

Succession by inheritance.

A female heir to a person having an estate of inheritance, When there are more than one, they are called “co-heiresses,” or “co-heirs.”

An heir at law. The ordinary heir by blood, succeeding to all the lands.

In Scotch law. One to whom the right of succession is ascertained by disposition or express deed of the deceased. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 75.

In Scotch law, One who succeeds to the deceased in conquest, t. e., lands or other heritable rights to which the deceased neither did nor could sueceed as heir to his predecessor.

In Scotchlaw. One who succeeds lineally by right of blood; one who succeeds to the deceased in his heritage; z. e., lands and other heritable rights derived to him by succession as

In Scotch law. One who succeeds as heir by virtue of a particular provision in a deed or instrument.

In Scotch law, He on whom an estate is settled that would not have fallen to him by legal succession. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 75.

The person who, if the ancestor should die immediately, would, in the present cireumstances of things, be his heir, but whose right of inheritance may be defeated by the contingenc

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection with others,) where it is intended to pass a fee.

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

In Seotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go tothe heir completely dismantled, such as the best of furniture, horses, cows, e

An beir begotten or borne by the person referred to; a lineal descendant. The terms “natural heirs” and “heirs of the body,” in a will, and by way of executory devise, are consider

In English law. The issue in tail, who claims per formaim dont; by the form of the gift.

IN A BOND. In Scotch law. He to whom a bond is payable expressly in case of the creditor’s de-

Inthe civil law. One who is named and appointed heir In the testament of the decedent. This name distinguishes him from a Zega? heir, (one upon whom the law casts the succession,)

In the civil law. One who inherits without any reservation, or without making an inventory, whether his acceptance be express or tacit. Distinguished from heir bencficiary, (g. v-)

The name given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the king’s debtors were confined. Rich. Dict.

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

A felon of himself; a de or murderer of himself. One who iberately and intentionally puts an end to wn life, or who commits some unlawful wlicious act which results in his own

Theend-wall covering and defending the rest of the building, Paroch. Antiq, 573.

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

A page; an attendant; a herald.

A letting of work to be done in the carrying of goods; a contract of bailment by which goods are delivered toa

<A customary pay~ ment of money instead of hens at Christmaw; a composition for eggs. Cowell.

A fine for flighton account oi murder. Domesday Book.

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

Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging athief. Fileta, lib. 1, ¢. 47, § 17.

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancient English chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman.

or HUDEFAST. In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (folgarit,) who had no habitations of their own, but we

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

A government exercised by seven persons, or a nation divided into; seven governments. In the year 560, seven different monarchies had been fermed in England by the German tribes, n

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carried messaver between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, or truce. In Enjust armorial bearings,

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

In England. An ancient royal corporation, first instituted by Richard IIT. in 1483. It comprises three kings of arms, six heralds, and four marshals or pursuivants of arms, togethe

In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another’s ground. Feed for cattle in fields and pastures, Bract. fol. 222; Co. Litt. 46; Sh

The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to aftermath or second cutting. Paroch. Antig. 459.

or HARBINGER. An viticer in the royal house, who goes before and allots the noblemen and those of the household their lodgings; also an innkeeper.

Lodgings to treceive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.

To harbor; to entertain.

Harbored or entertained in aninn. Cowell.

or HERBURY. An inn. ' Cowell.

A harrow. Fileta, lib. 2, c. ria

To harrow. 4 Inst. 270.

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. pt. 3. “HERDWERCH, HEORDWERCH. Herdsmen’s work, or customary labor, done by shepherds anid inferior tenants, at the will of th

In old English law. A proclamation summoning the army into the field. A muleé or fine for not joining the army when sumimoned. Spelman. A tax or tribute for the support of the army

The royal edict summon ing the people to the field. Cowell.

In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.

In Spanish law. A pieee of land under cultivation; a cultivated farm, real estate,

In Roman law. Necessary heirs; those who, being named heirs in the will, had no election whether to accept or decline the inheritance, the testator’s death, he at once became free,

In Sicilian and Neapolitan law. That which is held by hereditary right; the same with heredifamentum (hereditament) in English law. Spelman.

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 f

That which is the subject of inheritance, ' HEREDITARY RIGHT TO THE

Aburdensome inheritance. See Dam NosaA Hare Eep-

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

A heriot, (g. 0.)

Sax. Inold Englishlaw. A tribute or tax levied for the maintenance ofanarmy. Spelman.

A place of retirement for hermits. Mon. Angi. tom, 3, p. 18.

<Anarchdeacon. Cowell '

Heir; an heir. A form of heres, yory common in the civil law. See

In the civil law. An heir to the whole estate; a sole heir. Inst. 2, 23, 9. was not subject to the power of the testator, or person who made him heir. Qui testatoris jurét subjecti

HERESSA, HERESSIZ, A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst. 128.

In English law. An offenre against religion, consisting not in a total denial of Clivistianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4 Bl. Comm.

A general, leader, or commander; algo a@ baron of the realm. Du Fresne. present or time future, and haa no definite and precise signification beyond this. 40 Conn, 157.

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

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

In old Englishlaw, A sort of garment. Cowell.

In English law. A custon> ary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the own~ er ot the land, Heriots are divided into heriot service and h

A species of military service, or knight's fee. Cowell.

[fm old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for net obeying the proclamation made for warfare. Skene.

A division of house hold goods. Blount.

Laying down of arma. Blount. Desertion from the army. spelman.

The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spel- Inman.

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chielly used tn Seutch law, where it enters into several phrases.