Black's Law Dictionary

In medical jurisprudence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one side of the body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes originating from the spinal cord, as in "Bro

A title to possession. The admission of this old Norse term into the laws of the Conqueror is difficult to be accounted for; it is not found in any Anglo-Saxon law extant. Wharton.

A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes, and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present time forward, but excludes al

A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.

A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. Cowell.

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book.

In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol or house of correction.

Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, a 47, § 17.

Henry the Old or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancient English chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman.

Peter-pence, (q. v.)

In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (Jolgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were house-reta

In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

A government exercised by seven persons or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 560, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, nam

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carried messages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace or truce. In English law, a herald is a

The art, office or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse of buying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing.

In England. An ancient royal corporation, first instituted by Richard III. in 1483. It comprises three kings of arms, six heralds, and four marshals or pursnivants of arms, togethe

In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another's ground. Feed for cattle in fields and pastures. Bract, fol. 222; Co. Litt. 46; Sh

The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to aftermath or second cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 459.

An officer in the royal house, who goes before and allots the noblemen and those of the household their lodgings; also an innkeeper.

Lodgings to receive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.

To harbor; to enter-thin.

Harbored or entertained in an inn. Cowell.

An inn. Cowell.

A harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 77.

To harrow. 4 Inst. 270.

In old English law. Harrowing; work with a harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 82, § 2.

In the civil law. To be divided. Familia herciscunda, an inheritance to be divided. Actio families herds-cundw, an action for dividing an inheritance. Erciscunda is more cemmonly u

n. An indefinite number, more than a few, of cattle, sheep, horses or other animals of the larger sorts, assembled and kept together as one drove and under one care and management

One who herds or has charge of a herd of cattle, in the senses above defined. See Hooker v. McAllister, 12 Wash. 46, 40 Pac. 617; Underwood v. Birdsell, ft Mont. 142, 9 Pac. 922; R

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. pt 3.

Herdsmen's work, or customary labor, done by shepherds and inferior tenants, at the will of the lord. Cowell.

A word of futurity, always used in statutes and legal documents as indicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past. Chapman v. Holmes, 10 N. J. Law, 26; Tremont

In old English law. A proclamation summoning the army into the field. A mulct or fine for not joining the army when summoned. Spelman. A tax or tribute for the support of the army.

The royal edict summoning the people to the field. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A piece of land under cultivation; a cultivated farm, real estate; an inheritance or heirship. —Heredad yacente. From Lat. "hœreditas jacens," (q. v.) In Spanish la

From Lat. "hœreditas jacens," (q. v.) In Spanish law. An inheritance not yet entered upon or appropriated. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 19, c. 2, § 8.

In Spanish law. Heir; ho who, by legal or testamentary disposition, succeeds to the property of a deceased persen. "Hœres censeatur cum defuncto una eademque persona." Las Partidas

In Sicilian and Neapoliten law. That which is held by hereditary right; the same with hereditamentum-(hereditament) in English law, Spelman.

Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heir-looms, and certain fu

That which ls the subject of inheritance. —Hereditary disease. One transmitted or transmissible from parent to child in consequence of the infection of the former or the presence o

One transmitted or transmissible from parent to child in consequence of the infection of the former or the presence of the disease in his system, and without exposure of the latter

The crown of England, by the positive constitution of the kingdom, has ever been descendible, and so continues in a course peculiar to itself, yet subject to limitation by parliame

Descent or title by descent at common law; the title whereby a man on the death of his ancestor acquires hla estate by right of representation as his heir at law. See In re Donahue

Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, {profectio militaris;) an expedition. Spelman.

A heriot, (q. v.)

Sax. In old English law. A tribute or tax levied for the maintenance of an army. Spelman.

A subject Du Cange.

A place of retirement for hermits. Mon. Angl. tom. 3, p. 18.

Followers of an army.

An archdeacon. Cowell.

Heir; an heir. A form of hœres, very common in the civll law. See Hæres.

In old Scotch law. Theft or robbery. 1 Pita Crim. Tr. pt. 2, pp. 26, 89.

A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst 128.

In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denial of Christianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4 Bl. Comm.

A general, leader or commander ; also a baron of the reaim. Du Fresne.

This word simply denotes time past, in distinction from time present or time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v. Thayer, 40 Conn. 157.

In old records. A court or yard for drawing up guards or military retinue. Cowell.

In Scotch law. A gift or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as a token of reverence. Skene.

In Saxon law. Offenders who Joined in a body of more than thirty-five to commit depredations.

In old English law. A sort of garment Cowell.

In English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land. Heriots are divided into heriot service and herio

In old English law. A species of military service or knight's fee. Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A flne or penalty for not obeying the proclamation made for warfare, Skene.

A division of household goods. Blount.

Laying down of arms. Blount. Desertion from the army. Spelman.

The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spelman.

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases. —Heritable boud. A bond for a sum of money to which is added, for furthe

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, Conv. 76 ; 2 Ross,

Grants of criminal jurisdiction formerly bestowed on great families in Scotland, to facilitate the administration of justice. Whishaw. Abolished in effect by St. 20 Geo. II. c. 50.

In Louisiana. An obligation is heritable when the heirs and assigns of one party may enforce the performance against the heirs of the other. C5v. Code La. art 1997.

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

In the civil law. 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

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

In medical jurisprudence. A person of doubtful or double sex; one possessing, really or apparently, and in more or less developed form, some or all of the genital organs of both se

An hermaphrodite is to be considered male or female according to the predominance of the exciting sex. Co. Litt. 8; Bract, fol. 5.

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By the phrase "legal hermeneutics" is understood the systematic body of rules which are recognized as applicable to the const

A great lord. Jacob.

See Codex Hermogenianus.

A heron. Cowell.

Household goods; Implements of trade or husbandry; the rigging or tackle of a ship. Cowell.

L. Fr. A herald.

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 supplying herrings for the provision of a religious house. Wharton.

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

An easement. Du Cange.

A little loaf of bread.

In old records. Com or grain given or devoted to religious persons or purposes. 2 Mon. Angl. 367b; Cowell.

The head of a religious house; the head of a college; the warden of a corporation.

In Roman law. A company, seciety or college.

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

In old records. A customary burden upon Inferior tenants, for mending or repairing hays or hedges.

A hay-net; a net fbr catching conies. Cowell.

The season for sewing 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, etc. 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 lugures,) and possessed of prop

In Spanish law. Nobility by descent or lineage. White, New Recop. b. 1, tit 5, c. 3, § 4.

In old English law. A measure of land, being as much as could be worked with one plow. It is variously estimated at from 60 to 100 acres, but was probably determined by local usage

In English law. A term anciently applied to arable land. Co. Litt. 85b.