Black's Law Dictionary

L Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2.

In old English law. A man armed with a coat of mail. Jacob.

Lat. A form of the salutatory expression "Ave," used in the titles of some of the constitutions of the Theodoslan and Justinianean codes. See Cod. 7, 62, 9; Id. 9, 2, 11. To posses

A place of a large receipt and safe riding of ships, so situate and scoured by the land circumjacent that the vessels thereby ride and anchor safely, and are protected by the adjac

A small parcel of land so called in Kent; houses. Co. Litt 5.

A coat or shirt of mail; hence, derivatively (in feudal law) one who held a fief on the duty or service of providing himself with such armor and standing ready, thus equipped, for

In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 5b.

A trader who goes from place to place or ' along the streets of a town, selling the goods which he carries with him. It is perhaps not essential to the idea, but is generally under

Another name for "hedge-bate," being one of the estovers allowed to a tenant for life or years, namely, material for repairing the necessary hedges or fences of his grounds. 2 Bl.

In old English law. An officer appointed in the lord's court to kcep a common herd of cattle of a town; so called because he was to see that they did not break or injure the hedges

1. In old English law. An unlawful game at dice, those who play at it being called "hazardors." Jacob. 2. In modern law. Any game of chance or wagering. Cheek v. Com., 100 Ky. 1, 3

Insurance effected on property which is in unusual or peculiar danger of destruction by fire, or on the life of a man whose occupation exposes him to special or unusual perils.

See Negligence.

Exposed to or involving danger; perilous; risky. The terms "hazardous," "extra-hazardous," "specially hazardous," and "not hazardous" are well-understood technical terms in the bus

See Contract.

Such careless or reckless conduct as exposes one to very great danger of injury or to imminent peril. See Riggs v. Standard Oil Co.. (C. Ct) l3b Fed. 204

An abbreviation for house bill, i. e., a bill in the house of representatives, as distinguished from a senate bill.

An abbreviation for house of commons or for habeas corpus.

Lat. This is an agreement. Words with which agrce-ments anciently commenced. Yearb. H. 6 Edw. II. 191.

In Lat. This is the final agreement. The words with which the foot of a flne commenced. 2 Bl. Comm. 351.

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

Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or principal source of a stream. —Head money. A sum of money reckoned at a fixed amount for each head (person) in a designated Class. Part

In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty con-stableship was created, united w

Co.rtain tribunals In Scetland, abolished by 20 Geo. II. e. 50. Ersk, 1, 4, 5.

In old English law. A narrow piece of unplowed land left at the end of a plowed field for the turning of the plow. Called, also, "butt."

A sum of money reckoned at a fixed amount for each head (person) in a designated Class. Particularly (1) a capitation or poll tax. (2) A bounty offered by the laws of the United St

A syllabus to a reported case; a summary of the poinis decided in the case, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report

A term used in homestead and exemption laws to designate a person who maintains a family; a householder. Not necessarily a husband or father, but any person who has charge of, supe

This term means the source of the longest branch, unless general reputation has given the appellation, to another. Davis v. Bryant, 2 Bibb (Ky.) 110.

In the constitution and laws of the United States, the heads of departments are the officers at the head of the great executive departments of government (commonly calied "the cabi

The highest point on the stream which furnishes a continuous stream of water, not necessarilv the longest fork or prong. Uhl v. Reynolds, 64 S W. 498. 23 Ky. Law Rep. 759; State v.

In hydraulic engineering, mining, etc., the effective force of a body or volume of water, expressed in terms of the vertical distance from the level of the water in the pond, reser

An exaction of 4Od. or more, collected by the sheriff of Northumberland from the people of that county twice in every seven years, without acoount to the king. Abolished In 1444. C

In the laws of the republic of Texas, a certificate issued under authority of an act of 1839, which provided that every person immigrating to the republic between October 1, 1837,

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems uncertain.

One who heals or cures; specifically, one who professes to cure bodily diseases without medicine or any material means, according to the tenets and practices of so-called "Christia

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court

Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 48 Ala. 584.

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell.

Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of personal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129,

Laws prescribing sanitary measures, and designed to promote or preserve the health of the community.

The officer charged with the execution and enforcement of health laws. The powers and duties of health officers are regulated by local laws.

Free from dlsease or bodliy ailment or any state of the system peculiarly susceptible or liable to disease or bodily ailment Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 356.

In equity practice. The hearing of the arguments of the counsel for the parties upon the pleadings, or pleadings and proofs; corresponding to the trial of an action at law. The wor

A term applied to that species of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him or what he has heard suid by others. Hopt v.

Evidence not proceeding from the personal knowledge of the witness, but from the mere repetition of what he has heard others say. See, more fully, Hearsay.

A tax levied in England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10, consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and was abolished by 1 W. & M. St

In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323, 326.

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

In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel's headway by bringing her head "into the wind," that is, in the direction from which the wind blows. A steamer is s

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 goods of a thief, and the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.

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

In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called "hecks."

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

A small haven, wharf or landing place.

Toll or customary dues at the hithe or wharf, for landing goods, etc., from which exemption was granted by the crown to some particular persons and societies. Wharton.

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. 35.

A vagabond priest in olden time,

The leadership of one among several independent confederate states.

The epoch or account of time used by the Arabians and the Turks, who begin their computation from the day that Mahomet was compelled to escape from Mecca, which happened on Friday,

The leader of the monks in the Greek Church.

A young cow which has not had a calf. 2 East, P. C. 616. And see State v. McMinn, 34 Ark. 162; Mundell v. Hammond, 40 Vt. 645.

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

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

He who, after his ancestor's death intestate, has a right to inherit all lands, tenements, and hereditaments which belonged to him or of which he was seised. The same as "heir gene

In the civil law. One who has accepted the succession under the benefit of an inventory regularly made. Heirs are divided into two classes, according to the manner in which they ac

An adopted child, "who is in a limited sense made an heir, not by the law, but by the contract evidenced by the deed of adoption." In re Sessions' Estate, 70 Mich. 297, 38 N. W. 24

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

One to whom lands are devised by will; a devisee of lands. Answering to the hœres factus (q. v.) 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.

In the civil 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."

One who cannot be disinherited. See Forced Heirs.

An heir at law. The ordinary heir by blood, succeeding to all the lands. Forrest v. Porch, 100 Tenn. 391, 45 S. W. 676.

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 Louisiana. Irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. See Civ. Co.de La. art. 874. When there

In the civil law. A legal heir is one who takes the succession by relationship to the decedent and by force of law. This is different from a testamentary or conventional heir, who

Such goods and chat-teis as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go by special custom to the heir along with the inheritance, and not to the executor. The termination "loom"

In Scotch law. An heir institute, who, though not next in blood to the deceased, is his nearest male relation that can succeed to him. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 76. In English law, t

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

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

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.

An inheritor who suceeds to the estate by virtue of consanguinity with the decedent, either in the ascending or descending line, including illegitimate children, but excluding husb

An heir begotten or borne by the person referred to, or a child of such heir; any lineal descendant of the decedent, excluding a surviving husband or wife, adopted children, and" c

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

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

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

In Scotch law. He to whom a bond is payable expressly in case of the creditor's decease, or after his death. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 3, p. 76.

In the civil law. One who is named and appointed heir in the testament of the decedent. This name distinguishes him from a legal 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 beneficiary.

The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the king's debtors were confined. Rich. Diet

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

The end-wall covering and defending the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573.

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