A Dictionary of Law

In Scotch law. A bond for a sum of money to which is added, for further security of the creditor, a conveyance of land or heritage to be held by the creditor as pledge. 1 Ross, Con

In Scotch law. Grants of criminal jurisdiction formerly bestowed on great families in Scotland, to facilitate the administration of jus-

In Louisiana. An obligation is heritable when the heirs and assigns of one party may enforee the performance against the heirs of the other. Civil Code La. art. 1997.

In Scotch law. Righta of the heir; all rights to land or whatever is connected with land, as mills, fishings, tithes, etc.

Inthe civillaw, Every species of immovable which can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatever mode they may have been a

An estate in things, descending to the heir. 2 Bl. Comm. ich an estate in lands or tenements or things as may be inherited by the heir. mes de la Ley. n estate or property which a

In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Kames, Eq. Pref.

In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By the phrase “legal hermeneuties” is understood the systematie body of rules which are recognized as applicuble to the const

A great lord. Jacob.

See Coprx HEenMOGENIANUS.

or HERNASIUM, Household goods; implements of trade or husbandry; the rigging or tackle of a ship. Cowell.

A harrow. Spelman.

In old English law. A day’s work with a harrow. Spelman,

This was a composition in money for the custom of suppiying herrings for the provision of a religious house. Wharton.

A master. Servus facit ut herus det, the servant does [the work] in order that the master may give [him the wages agreed on.] Herus dat wi servus Jacit, the master gives [or agrees

An easement. Du Cange.

In old records. Corn or grain given or devoted to religious persons or purposes, 2 Mon. Angl. 38676; Cowell.

In Roman law. A company, society, or college. ———

Sax. In old English law. A surety, (warrantus.)

In oldrecords, A customary burden upon inferior tenants, for mending or repairing hays or hedges.

<A hay-net; a net for catching conies, Cowell.

In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other proyotation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that o

The season for sowing winter corn. Cowell.

An extraordinary tax formerly payable to the crown for every hide of land. This taxation was levied, not in money, but provision of armor, ete. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A noble; a person entitled to the rights of nobility. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from good situations in life, (de buenos lugares,) and possessed of prop

In Spanish law. Nobility by descent or lineage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, ¢ 8, § 4.

Inold English law. A measure from 60 to 109 acres, but was probably deteritiined by local usage. Another meaning was as much land as would support one farnily or the dwellers in a

In English law. A tezm anciently applied to arable land. Co. Litt. 856,

In old English law. A piace of protection; 2 sanctuary. St. 1 Hen. VII. ce, 5, 6; Cowell.

In Saxon law. Lands belonging to a hide; that is, a house or Mansion. Spelman,

A sum of money paid bya villain or servant to save himself from a Whipping. Fleta, 1.1, ¢. 47, § 20,

Originally, government by a hody of priests. Now, the body of officers in any church or ecclesiastical institution, considered as forming an ascending series oi ranks or degrees of

An ollicer attached to an English county court. His duties are to attend the court when sitting; to serve summonses; and to execute arders, warrants, writs, ete. St. 9 &10 Vict. c.

In English law. An ecclesiastical court of very formidable jurisdiction, for the vindication of the peace and dignity of the church, by reforming, ordering, and correcting the eccl

In English law. An otticer of publie justice, otherwise called “chief constable” and “constable of the hundred,” wliose proper duty is to keep the king’s peace within the hundred,

In English law. This was a court which exercised jurisdiction in prize cases, and had general jurisdiction in muritime causes, on the imstance side. Its proceedings wera usually iz

That branch of the English supreme court of judicature (q. v.) which exercises (1) the original jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of chancery, the courts of queen's benc

In English law. The English parliament, as composed of the house of peers and house of commons; or the house of lords sitting in its judicial capacity.

MWigh crimes and misdemeanors are such immoral and unlawful acts as are nearly allied and equal in guilt to felony, yet, owing to some technical circuin-

In feudal law. The jurisdiction or right of trying crimes of every kind, even the highest. This wasa privilegs claimed and exercised by the great lords or barons of the middle ages

In old French and Canadian law. A feudal lord who exercised the right called “high justice.” Guyot, Inst. Feod. c. 26.

See Mis- PRISION; High Crimes.

A school in which higher branches of learning are taught than in the common schools. 123 Mass. 306. A school in which such instruction is given as will prepare the students to ente

Theocean; public waters. Aceording tothe English doctrine, the high sea begins at the distanceof three miles from the coast of any country; according to the American view, ab low-w

This term is properly applicable only to tidal waters, and designates the line on the shore reached by the water at the high er flood tide. But it ig sometimes also used with refer

or LAWS. The body or system of laws governing the laying out, repair, and use of highways.

A piace where the track of a railroad crosses the line of a highway.

A bandit; one who rols travelers upon the highway.

In Englishlaw. A tax for the maintenance and repair of highways, chargeable upon the same property that is liable to the poor-rate,

In criminal law. The crime of robbery committed upon or near a public highway. In England, by St. 23 Hen. VIII. c.1, this was made felony without benefit of clergy, while robbery c

A tax for and applicable to the making and repair of highways.

In English law. A hawker or peddler, A person whe carries from door to door, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like.

In Spanish law. A receipt given by an heir of a decedent, setting forth what property he has received from the eatate.

One of the four great Roman roads of Britain. More commonly called ‘“Ikenild Street.”

A collection of orders and forms extensively modifying the pleading and practice in the English superior courts of common law, established in Hilary term, 1834, Stimson.

In English law. A term of court, beginning on the 11th and ending on the 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which begin January 11th, and end on th

To hinder and delay is fo do something which is an attempt to defraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some obstacle in the path, or interpose some time, unjustifiably, befo

The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and administered by the government of British India.

The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday.

In Spanishlaw. A mort gage of real property.

See HEROCISOUNDA.

or EYRE. In old English law., A journey, route, or circuit. Justices iz eire were judges who were sent by commission, every seven years, into various counties to hold the assizes a

v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See Hiring. To engage in service for a stipulated reward, as to hire a servant fo

2. Compensation for the use of a thing, or for labor or services.

One who hires a thing, or the labor or services of another person.

Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant, during a certain

HURST. In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt. 48.

The use of this pronoun in a written instrument, in referring toa person whose Christian name is designated therein by a mere initial, is not conclusive that the person referred to

In English law. The title of a viceroy, governor general, amhassador, or commander in chief. In American law. This title is given to the governor of Massachusetts by the constituti

A title given by the constitution of Massachusetts to the lieutenantgovernor of that commonwealth. Const. Mass. pt. 2, ¢. 2, § 2, arf. 1.

EINETIA. The share of the oldest son. The portion acquired by primogeniture. Termes de la Ley; Co. Litt, 1668; Cowell,

Lat. These being witnesses. The attestation clause in old deeds and charters.

May be used in the sense of “each,” 59 Ill. 87. This word does not mean “all;” but does

A hide of land.

Sax. A lord. 1 Spence, Ch. 36,

Sax. A lord’s protection. Du Cange.

Sax. In Saxon law. The crime of betraying one’s lord, (proditio domini;) treason. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 301.

Sax. A servant fed at hia master’s cost,

Sax. The benefit of the law. Du Cange.

In practice. (Fr. Cleigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) A return to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of the sheriff.

Eloigned. A _ return made by a sheriff to a writ de homine replegyéando, stating that the party to be replevied has been eloigned, or couveyed out of his jurisdiction. % Bl. Comm.

In Saxon law. A fine for being present at an unlawful assembly. Spelman.

In Roman law. Own and necessary heirs; i. e., the lineal descendants of the estate-leaver. They were called "necessary" heirs, because it was the law that made them heirs, and not

In English law. An ancient gild or fraternity at Newcastleupon-Tyne, who cealt in sea coal. St. 21 Jace Tse ds

Im old English law. Light horseinen or bowmen; also certain tenants, bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion, or such like peril, t

Lat, This. Hoe intuéte, with this expectation. Hec loco, in this place. Hoe nomine, in this name. Hoc titulo, under this title. oc voce, under this word. HOC QUIDEM PERQUAM DURUM

A hoke, hole, or lesser pit of salt. Cowell. HOCK - TUESDAY MONEY. This was a duty given to the landlord that his a tenants and bondmen might solemnize the day on which the English

or HOCQUETEUR. A knight of the post; a decayed man; a basket carrier. Cowell.

A name applied to a statute which comprises a medley of incongruous subjects.

In old English law. A hill or mountain. In old Engiish, a how. Grene hoga, Grenehow. Domesday; Spelman.

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, ¢. 79, §§ 4,12. A young hog. Cowell.

or HOGIETUS. A hog or swine. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A decennary was called “hoghenhyne,” and his host became responsible for his acts as for those of his servant,

A measure of a capacity contain‘ng the fourth part of a tun, or sixtythree gallons. Cowell. <A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing from one hundred to one hu

With or in that view; with that intent or object. Hale, Anal. § 2.

In English law. A copyhold is said to be extingutshed when the freehold and copylold interests unitein the same person and in the same right, which may be either by the copyhold in

in English law, is “a holder who has taken a bill of exchange (check or note) complete and regular on the face of it, under the following conditions, namely: (a) That he became the

Sax. In Saxonlaw. <A military commander. Spelman.

In English law, A piece of Jand held under a lease or similar tenancy for agricultural, pastoral, or similar purposes. a The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to