Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law. The wealh or Briton who had care of the king's horses.

In old English law. A service or corv6e, consisting in watching the horses of the lord. Ann. Inst Eng.

Lat In the civil law. A garden. Dig. 32, 91, 5.

One that kills his guest or host

Lat A guest 8 Coke, 32.

A great chamberlain.

An institution for the reception and care of sick, wounded, infirm or aged persons; generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called "eleemosynary" or "charitab

The knights of a religious order, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. All their lands and goods in England were given to the sover

A host or entertainer.

An innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32.

The marshal of a camp.

Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Reg. Orig. 105. Hospitia cu-riœ, inns of court Hospitia concellarias, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 429 ; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.

An inn; a household. See Cromwell v. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 17.

A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallaehia.

L. Fr. An army. Britt c. 22. A milltary expedition; war. Kelham.

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 bell

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

See Hostler.

Lat Enemies. Hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race; i. e., pirates.

7 Coke, 24. Enemies are those with whom we declare war or who declare it against us; all others are traitors or pirates.

In old records. The host-bread or consecrated wafer, in the eucharist. Cowell.

One who kills an enemy.

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

Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4. —Hostile embargo. One laid upon the vessels of an actual or prospective enemy. —Host

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

This term as applied to au occupant of reni estate holding adversely, la not construed as implying actual enmity or ill will, but merely means that he claims to hold the possession

In the law of nations. A sinte 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

In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in a monastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until about the time of Queen Elizabe

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 publlc house or tavern ; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. St. Louis v. Siegrist, 46 Mo. 594; People v. Jones, 54 Barb. (N. Y.) 316; Cromwell v. Stephens,

In old English law. This was a test, in cases of accusation, by hot water; the party accused and suspected being appointed by the judge to put his arms up to the elbows in seething

The twenty-fourth part of a natural day; sixty minutes of time.

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

1. A dwelling; a building designed for the habitation and residence of men. "House" means, presumptively, a dwelling-house ; a building divided into floors and apartments, with fou

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

In criminal law. Breaking and entering a dwelling-house with intent to commit any felony therein. If done by night, it comes under the definition of "burglary."

See Arson.

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

A family living together. May v. Smith, 48 Ala. 488; Woodward v. Murray, 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 402; Arthur v. Morgan, 112 U. S. 495, 5 Sup. Ct. 241, 28 L. Ed. 825. Those who dwell unde

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

See Furniture.

These words, in a will, include everything of a permanent nature (i. e., articles of household which are not consumed in their enjoyment) that are used in or purchased or otherwise

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 who is in actual possession of and who occupies a house, as distinguished from a "boarder," "lodger," or "guest." See Bell v. Keach, 80 Ky. 45; Veils v. Koch, 27 III. 131.

One of the constituent houses of the British parliament; composed of representatives of the counties, cities, and boroughs.

A reformatory. A place for the imprisonment of juvenile offenders, or those who have committed crimes of lesser magnitude. Ex parte Moon Fook, 72 Cal. 10, 12 Pac. 804,

The official title of the lower branch of the legislative assembly of several of the American states, e. g., Maryland and Virginia.

A bawdy-house ; a brothel; a dwelling allowed by its chief occupant to be used as a resort of persons desiring unlawful sexual intercourse. McAlister v. Clark, 33 Conn. 91; State v

The name of the lower branch of the legislative assembly or parliament of the Isle of Man. consisting of twenty-four representatives chosen by popular election.

The upper chamber of the British parliament. It comprises the archbishops and bishops, (called "Lords Spiritual,") the English peers sitting by virtue of hereditary right, sixteen

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

The name of the body forming the more popular and numerous branch of the congress of the United States ; also of the similar branch in many of the state legislatures.

A building or place set apart for and devoted to the holding of religious services or exercises or public worship; a church or chapel or place similarly used. Old South. Son. v. Bo

A place used by husbandmen ip 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. Co. Litt 5b.

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

The master or captain of a hoy.

An abbreviation for house of representatives.

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

An ancient writ that lay for the lord, who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age, could not obtain his person, the same being carried away by another person. Old Na

An ancient writ, directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of an heir, being in ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land. Reg. Ori

An ancient writ that lay for the ravishment of the lord's ward. Reg. Orig. 163.

Lat In the civil law. Heirs. The plural of hœres, (q. v.)

Lat. In old English law. A seeker of an inheritance; hence, the next heir to lands.

To the next heir, whether a relation or a stranger, certainly a dangerous guardian, let no one be committed. Co. Litt. 88b.

In Roman law. The hœreditas was a universal succession by law to any deceased person, whether such person had died testate or intestate, and whether in trust (ex fideicommisso) for

Co. Litt. 9. An inheritance is either corporeal or Incorporeal. Co.rporeal is that which can be touched and seen; incorporeal, that which can neither be touched nor seen.

Co.. Litt. 237. Inheritance is the succession to every right which the deceased had.

A vacant inheritance. So long as no one had acquired the inheritance, it was termed "hœreditas jacens;" and this, by a legal fiction, represented the person of the decedent. Mackel

The right of inheritance is nothing else than the faculty of succeeding to all the rights of the deceased. Dig. 50, 17, 62.

In Roman law. The heir or universal successor in the event of death. The heir is he who actively or passively succeeds to the entire property of the estate-leaver. He is not only t

An heir is another self, and a son is part of the father. 3 Coke, 12b.

An heir is either by right of property or right of representation. 3 Coke, 40b.

An heir is the same person with his ancestor. Co. Litt. 22; Branch, Princ. See Nov. 48, c. 1, § 1.

Heir is a collective name or noun. 1 Vent. 215.

Heir is a name or term of law; "son" is a name of nature. Bac. Max. 52, in reg. 11.

An heir is a part of the ancestor. So said because the ancestor, during his life, bears in his body (in judgment of law) all his heirs.

A fiduciary heir, or heir in trust; a person constituted heir by will, in trust for the benefit of another, called the "fideicommissarius."

The heir of my heir is my heir.

He is a lawful heir whom marriage points out as such ; who is born in wedlock. Co. Litt. 7 b; Bract, fol. 88; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1; Broom, Max. 515.

Moore, 348. An heir under twenty-one years of age is not answerable, except in the matter of dower.

Co. Litt. 386. In England, the heir is not bound to pay his ancestor's debts, uniess he be bound to it by the ancestor, except debts due to the king. But now, by 3 & 4 Win. IV. c.

In the civil law. A man's own heir; a decedent's proper or natural heir. This name was given to the lineal descendants of the deceased. Inst. 3, 1, 4 —5. —. Haeredes sui et necessa

In old English law. To give a right of inheritance or make the donation hereditary to the grantee and his heirs. Cowell.

The statute 2 Hen. IV. c. 15, de haeretico comburendo, was the first penal law enacted against heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against all beretica who relapsed

An agreement to do any act forbidden by the law, or to omit to do any act enjoined by the law. Billingsley v. Clelland, 41 W. Va. 243, 23 S. E. 816,

An inheritance never ascends. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 211. A maxim of feudal origin, and which invariably prevailed in the law of England down to the passage of the statut

An abbreviation for hoc titulo, this title, under this title; used in references to books.

A petty dealer and retailer of small articles of provisions, particularly farm and garden produce. Mays v. Cincinnati, 1 Ohio St 272; Lebanon County v. Kline, 2 Pa. Co. Ct. In 622.

In old pleading. Hitherto. 2 Mod. 24.

In old English law. 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 pr

In old English law. A loud outcry 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 measure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow in one day. 2 White, Recop. (38,) 49; Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet. 443, 9 Lu Ed. 1137.

L. Fr. A door. "Al huis del es-glise," at the door of the church. Bendloe, 133

A ship used to transport horses. Also termed "uffer"

In French law. 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 small vessel. Cowell.

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

A moist place. Mon. Angl.

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprised an indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten tithings or groups of ten families of freehold