A Dictionary of Law

Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Heg. Orig. 105. Hospitia eurie, inns of court. Hospitia canceliaria, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 429; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.

One that kills his guest or host.

An inn; a household.

A Turkish governor in Meldayia or Wallachia.

<A person who is given into the possession of the enemy, in a public war, his freedom (or life) to stand as security for the performance of some contract or promise made by the bel

In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment, anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell.

Enemies. Hostes hument Hostes sunt qui nobis vel quibus nos bellum decernimus; cexteri proditores vel predones sunt, 7 Coke, 24, Enemies are those with whom wedeclare war, or who d

In old reeords. The host. bread, or consecrated wafer, In the eucharist. Cowell.

One who kills an enemy.

HOSPITALARIA. A place or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers.

Having the character of an enemy; standing inthe relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. ec. 4.

One laid upon the vessels of an actual or prospective enemy.

A witness who manifests so much hostility or prejudice under examination in chief that the party who has called him, or his representative, is allowed to cross-examine him, 7. ¢.,

In thelawof nations. A state of open war. “At the breaking out of hostility.” 1 Kent, Comm. 60. An act of open war. “When hostilities have commenced.” Id. 56. A hostile character.

The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Comm. 190. Anciently applied to the mixing and blending of lands given to one

An inn; a public house or tavern; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. 54 Barb, 316; 2 Daly, 15; 46 Mo. 504,

In old En+ plish law. This was atest, in cases of ace cusation, by hot water; the party accused and suspected being appointed by the judge to put his arms up te the elbows in seeth

In Scotch practice. The hour when a court is met. 3 How. State Tr. 603.

A fee paid for housing goods by a carrier, or at a wharf, ete.

In criminal law. Breaking and entering adwelling-house with intent tocommit any felony therein. If done by night, it comes under the definition of “burglary.”

A tax on inhabited houses imposed by 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36, in lieu of window-duty, which was abolished.

In English law. A principal officer of the royal establishment, next uniler the controller, who, in the countinghouse and elsewhere, had a special charge and oversight of the olher

A family living together. 18 Johns. 400, 402. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. Webster. A man’s family living together constitutes his household, though he

The occupier of a house. Brande. More correctly, one who keeps house with his family; the head or master of a family. Webster; 18 Johns. 302. One who has a household; the head of a

This term, in a will, includes all personal chattels that may contribute to the use or convenience of the householder, or the ornament of the house; as plate, linen, china, both us

These words, not consumed in their enjoyment) that are ased in or purchased or otherwise acquired by a testatorfor his house. 1 Rop. Leg. 191.

This phrase, in a will, includes everything which may be used for the convenience of the house, as tables, chairs, bedding, and the like. But apparel, books, weapons, tools for art

One whois in actual possession of and who occupies a house, as distinguished from a “boarder,” “lodger,” or “guest.”

One of the constituent houses of the British parliament,

A re formatory. A place for the imprisonment of juvenile offenders, or those who have committed crimes of lesser magnitude.

A bawdyhouse; a brothel; a’ dwelling allowed by its chief occupant to be used as a resort of persons desiring unlawful sexual intercourse. 33 Conn, 91.

Theupper chamber of the British parliament. It comprises the archbishops and bishops, (called “Lords Spiritual,”) the English peers sitting by virtue of hereditary right, sixteen S

A prison for juvenile delinquents. A house of correction or reformatory.

The name of the body furming the more popular and numerous branch of the congress of the Un'ted States; also of the similar branch in many of the state legislatures.

A place used by husbandmen to set their plows, carts, and other farming utensils out of the rain and sun. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.

In old English law. A hill. Oo. Litt. 58.

<A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and gouds from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

The master or captain ofa hoy.

In Spanish law. A term synonymous with “equity” in one of its senses, and defined as “the benignant and prudent interpretation of the law according to the circumstances of the time

The office of overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop, who 6 is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government by diocesan bishops. eee

The right of the mortgagor of an estate to redeem the same after it has been forfeited, at law, by a breach of the condition of the mortgage, upon paying the amount of debt, intere

A kind of rack for extorting confessions.

In the civil law. An heir made by will; a testamentary heir; the person created universal successor by will. Story, Confl. Laws, § 507; 3B]. Comm, 224. Otherwise called “heres ea t

In old pleading. Hitherto. 2 Mod, 24.

Inold Englishlaw. An acquittance for an assault upon a trespassing servant. Supposed to be a mistake or misprint in Fleta for “hinegeld.” Fleta, lib. 1, c, 47, § 20. Also the price

In old English law. A loud outery with which felons (such as robbers, burglars, and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were bound to take up, and join in

In Spanish law. A meas. ure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow inoneday. 2 White, Recop. (38,) 49; 12 Pet, 448.

A ship used to transport horses. Also termed “u/fer.”

In Frenchlaw. Marshals; ushers; process-Servers; sheriffs’ officers. Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal service of process required by law in actions, to

In old records. <A hulk or sinall vessel, Cowell.

In old records. A hill 2 Mon. Angl. 292; Cowell.

A moist place. Mon. Angl.

In old English law. -A hundredary or hundredor, A name given to the chief officer of a hundred, as well as to the freeholders who composed it. Spel. voc. “Hundredus.”

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred.

In English law. A larger court-baron, being held for al) the inhabitants of a particular hundred, instead of amanor. The free suitors are the judges, and the steward the registrar,

Among the Saxons, a meeting or court of the freeholders of a hundred, which assembled, originally, twelve times a year, and possessed civil

The law of the hundred, or hundred court; liability to attend the hundred court. Spelman.

In Englishlaw. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, anciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court. Versors impaneled or fit to be impaneled upon juries, dwelling wit

In old English law. A tax collected from the hundred, by the sheriff or lord of the aac Spel. voce. “ Hundredus.”

The performance of suit and service at the hundred court.

In Saxon law. The dwellers or inhabitants of a hundred. Cowell; Blount. Spelman suggests the reading of scealena from Sax. “sceat,” a tax.

A denomination of weight containing, according to the English system, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois,

A domestic; one of a family.

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution.

A married man; one who has a lawful wife living. The correlative of NVLTES? Etymologically, the word signified the “house bond;” the man who, according to Saxon ideas aud instituti

One of the great domestic relationships; being that of a man and woman lawfully joined in marriage, by which, at common law, the legal existence of a wife is incorporated with that

In old Scotch luw. A quantity of land containing commonly six acres. Skene.

<A farmer; a cultie vator or tiller of the ground. The word “farmer” is colloquially used as synonymous with “husbandman,” but originally meant a tenant who cultivates leased groun

See Sn Hrp’s Hvs Banp.

In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 350.

Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions,

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 303,

He whoholds house and Jand. Jract, 1 3, t. 2, ¢. 10.

Inoldrecords. House rent; or a tax or tribute jaid upon a house, Cowell; Blount.

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence,

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within a building, at a time when other courts were l:eld in the open air. It was a lecal court. y: HUSTINGS 5 Lincol

Hue and ery. See Hur anp Cryr.

A deed or other document establishing the title to property, especially real estate.

<Anobjection to the special bail putin by the defendant to an action at law made by the plaintiff on grounds of the insufficiency ot the bail. 1 Tidd, Pr. 205.

Inold 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. Cowel

A mongrel; an animal formed of the union of different species, or different - genera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the union of persons of different Taces. ] HYD. In

See Hipage.

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 specifi

In the civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to his wife, at his death, above her dowry.

In Scotland, the term “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s right which, independently of any stipulation, he has over the crop and stocking of his tenant. It gives a securi

"Hypotheca" was a term of the Roman law, and denoted a pledge or mortgage. As distinguished from the term "pignus," in the same law, it denoted a mortgage, whether of lands or of g

In the civillaw. An hypothecary action; an action for the enforcement of an hypotheca, or right of mortgage; or to obtain the surrender of the thing mortgaged. Inst. 4, 6,7; Mackel

In the civillaw. Hypothecary creditors; those who loaned money on the security ot an Aypotheca, {g.0.) Calvin.

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for the enforcement of the claims of a creditor by the contract of hypotheca.

To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to the pledgee. “The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, may hypothecats the ship, treight, and cargo, t

A term borrowed from the civil Jaw. In so far as it is naturalized in English and American law, it into the possession of the pledgee or pawnee; or, conversely, a conventional righ

A bond given in the contract of bottomry or respondentia,

In French law. Hypothecation; a mortgage on real property; the right vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for the payment of his debt, whether o

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the prosecution, ona criminal trial, or by the defense, as an explanation of the facts in evidence, and a ground for inferr

<A combination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances, stated in such form as to constitute acoherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an e

In old English law. A parish.

Those who, hayre ing been thought dead, had, after a long absence in foreign countries, returned safely heme; or those who, having been thought dead in battle, had afterwards unexp

In English law. A port, I. Theinitial letter of the word “ Instt- ¢uta,” used by some civilians in citing the Institutes of Justinian. Tayl. Civil Law, 24, I—CTUS. An abbreviation

The season for sowing winter corn. Ibi semper debet fieri triatio ubi juratores meliorem possunt habere notitiam. 7 Coke, 1b. <A trial should always be had where the jurors can be

Lat. In the same place; in the same book; on the same page, ete. Abbreviated to “ibid.” or “id.”