Black's Law Dictionary

Haven courts; courts anciently held in certain ports in England. Spelman.

A house in a city or borough. Scott

A hedge. Mon. Angl. tom. 2, pt 273.

A little hand-gun. St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6.

A hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne. St 2 & 3 Edw. VI. f. 14 ; 4 & 5 P. & M. c. 2.

In old English law. A park inclosed. Cowell.

In old English law. A permission or liberty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount

In Scotch law. Whole; the whole. "All and halll" are common words In conveyances. 1 Bell, App. Cas. 499.

(i.e., holyworkfolk.) Those who formerly held lands by the service of defending or repairing & church or monument.

In old Scotch law. To seek restitution of one's own goods and gear, and bring the same home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.

In Scotch law. The crime of assaulting a person in his own house. Belli

A moiety; one of two equal parte of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec. 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co., 80 Mich. 491,

A term denoting the degree of relationship which exists between those who have the same father or the same mother, but not both parents in common.

Persons who have the same father, but different mothers; or the same mother, but different fathers. Wood v. Mitcham, 92 N. Y. 379; In re Weiss' Estate, 1 Montg. Co.. Law Rep'r (Pa.

A copper coin of the United States, of the value of five mills, and of the weight of ninety-four grains. The coinage of these was discontinued in 1857.

See Defense

A silver (now nickel) coin of the United States, of the value of five cents.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of fifty cents, or one-half the value of a dollar.

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of five dollars.

A moiety, or half of a thing.

In Saxon law. Half-king, (semi-rew.) A title given to the aldermen of all England. Crabb, Eng. Law, 28; Spelman.

A noble, or six shillings and eight pence in English money.

Compensation for services which a ilot has put himself in readiness to perform, y labor, risk, and cost, and has offered to perform, at half the rate he would have received if the

In the civil law. Proof by one witness, or a private instrument. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 9, no. 25; 3 Bl. Comm. 370. Or prima facie proof, which yet was not sufficient to fou

See Hale.

That which was formerly used in the English chancery for sealing of commissions to delegates, upon any appeal to the court of delegates, either in ecclesiastical or marine causes.

In American land law. The half of a section of land according to the divisions of the government survey, Inid off either by a north-and-south or by an east-and-west line, and contn

A child who, by the operation of the English factory and education acts, is employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he may attend some "recogni

In legal computation. The period of one hundred and eighty-two days; the odd hours being rejected. Co. Litt. 135b; Cro. Jac. 166; Yel. 100; 1 Steph. Comm. 265; Pol. Code Cal. 1903,

A synonym for lynch law or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in Englan

In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, (conventus aulæ,) that ls, a lord's court; a court of a manor or court-baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen me

In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Wharton.

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc. In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because t

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended In a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market; for such commodities as were vended in the commo

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the first occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28 ; 5,

In Saxon law. Hali-gemot, (q. v.)

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbid error either of the sense of sight or that of hearing or possibly of the other senses; a psychological state, su

See Haligemot.

A holy or ecclesiastical court. A court held in London before the lord mayor and sheriffs, for regulating the bakers. It was anciently held on Sunday next before St. Thomas' day, a

Sax. In old English law. Tenants who held land by the service of repairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted from feudal and military services.

In old English law. A hook; an engine with which a house on fire is pulled down. Yel. 60. A piece of land.

In forest law. The hox-ing or hock-sinewing of dogs; an old mode of laming or disabling dogs. Termes de la Ley.

In Scotch law. The violent entering into a man's house without license or against the peace, and the seeking and assaulting him there. Skene de Verb. Sign.; 2 Forb. Inst 139. The c

(Sax. From ham, a house.) In Saxon law. An assault made in a house; a breach of the peace in a private house.

A small village; a part or member of a vill. It is the diminutive of "ham," a vlllage. Cowell. See Rex. v. Morris, 4 Term, 552.

A close joining to a house; a croft; a little meadow. Cowell.

Metaphorically, a forced sale or sale at public auction. "To bring to the hammer," to put up for sale at auction. "Sold under the hammer," sold by an officer of the law or by an au

In Saxon law. The right of security and privacy in a man's hbuse. Du Cange. The breach of this privilege by a forcible entry of a house is breach of the peace. Du Cange.

A hamper or basket in which were kept the writs of the court of chancory relating to the business of a subject, and their returns. 3 Bl. Comm. 49. According to others, the fees acc

An office belonging to the common-law jurisdiction of the court of chancery, so called because all write relating to the business of a subject, and their returns, were formerly kep

A measure of length equal to four inches, used in measuring the height of horses. A person's signature. In old English law. An oath. For the meaning of the terms "strong hand" and

A written or printed notice displayed to inform those concerned of something to be done. People v. McLaughlin, 33 Misc. Rep. 691, 68 N. Y. Supp. 1108.

In Saxon law. A hand pledge; a name given to the nine pledges in a decennary or friborg; the tenth or chief, being called "Headborow," (q. vt) So called as being an inferior pledge

An appellate court is said to "hand down" its decision in a case, when the opinion is prepared and filed for transmission to the court below.

In old English law. Betrothment

In old English law. Peace or protection given by the king with his own hand.

In Saxon law. One having a thing in his hand; that is, a thief found having the stolen goods in his possession. Jurisdiction to try such thief.

Money paid in hand to bind a bargain; earnest money.

Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was held necessary to bind a bargain,—a custom still retained in verbal contracts. A sale thus made was called "handsale

Handsale or earnest money.

The chirography of a person; the cast or form of writing peculiar to a person, including the site, shape, and style of letters, tricks of penmanship, and whatever gives individuali

Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sheriff to take a view of lands or tenements.

In old practice. To remain undetermined. "It has hung long enough; it is time it were made an end of." Holt, C. J., 1 Show. 77. Thus, the present participle means pending; during t

In criminal law. Suspension by the neck ; the mode of capital punishment used in England from time immemorial, and generally adopted in the United States. 4 Bl. Comm. 403. —Hanging

In atrocious cases it was at one time usual, in England, for the court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder w

An executioner. One who executes condemned criminals by hanging.

In Saxon law. A fine for illegal hanging of a thief or for allowing him to escape. Immunity from such fine. Du Cange.

An alliance or confederation among merchants or cities, for the good ordering and protection of the commerce of its members. An imposition upon merchandise. Du Cange. —Hanse towns.

Pertaining to a hanse or commercial alliance ; but, generally, the union of the Hanse towns is the one referred to, as in the expression the "Hanseatic League."

The collective name of certain German cities, including Lubeck, Hamburg, and Bremen, which formed an alliance for the mutual protection and furtherance of their commercial interest

The maritime ordinances of the Hanseatic towns, first published in German at Lubeck, in 1597, and in May, 1614, revised and enlarged.

The chief of a company; the head man of a corporation.

In old European law. An arrest or attachment. Spelman.

To catch. Thus, "hap the rent," "hap the deed-poll," were formerly used.

The constitutional right of men to pursue their "happiness" means the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of other

In old statutes. A hand-gun, about three-quarters of a yard long.

In old English law. A race of horses and mares kept for breed; a stud. Spelman.

In England, an officer of the royal household.

n. A haven or a space of deep water so sheltered by the adjacent land as to afford a safe anchorage for ships. Rowe v. Smith, 51 Conn. 271, 50 Am. Rep. 16; The Aurania (D. C.) 29 F

In England a harbor authority is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty of constructing, improving, managing, or lighting,

In old Scotch law. Lions ; coins formerly of the value of three half-pence. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.

A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposed upon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harder than ordinary mechanical lab

Lawful coined money. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 536.

The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bear upon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction, which is otherwise termed

See Error.

In old European law. The defensive armor of a man; harness. Spelman.

All warlike instruments; also the tackle or furniture of a ship.

Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cowell.

The old form of "heriot," (q. v.) Williams, Seis. 203.

A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete.

In old English law. The hasp of a do6r; by which livery of seisin might anciently be made, where there was a house on the premises.

In old Scotch la'w. The form of entering an heir in a subject situated within a royal borough. It consisted of the heir's taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door, (which was

Lat. A spear. In the Roman law, a spear was the sign of a public sale of goods or sale by auction. Hence the phrase "hastæ subjicere" (to put under the spear) meant to put up at au

In maritime law. Primage; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship.

O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman.

A green plot in a valley.

The use of this word, instead of the statutory word "carry," in an indictment charging that the defendant "did feloniously steal, take, and haul away" certain personalty, will not

In old English law. Hatred. Leg. Wm. I. c. 16; Blount.

Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to draw water from another's well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well or spring,) so far

I Fr. Highway. Yearh. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.