A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

in English practice, is a writ issued out the C. P. commanding the sheriff to compel the appearance of a jury in the cause between the parties.. It answers the same purpose in that

remedies. A writ of habeas corpus is an order in writing, signed by the judge who grants the same, and sealed with the seal of a court of which he is a judge, issued in the name of

practice, the name of a writ which lies when a view is to be taken of lands and tenements. F. N. B. Index, verbo, View.

estates. A dwelling-house, a home-stall. 2 Bl. Com. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 220. Vide House.

one who is so frequently drunk as to manifest a design of repeating the same act. By the laws of Pennsylvania a habitual drunkard is put nearly upon the same footing with a lunatic

so frequently as to show a design of repeating the same act.

parentage, kindred. When persons are descended from only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood, or related only by half inthe same degree that children descended from th

money, a copper coin of the United States, of the value of one two-hundredth part of a dollar, or five mills. It weighs eighty-four grains. Act of January 18, 1837, s. 12, 4 Sharsw

pleading. Vide Defence, Et cetera.

money,a silver coin of the United States of the value of fifty cents. It weighs two hundred and six and one-fourth grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure silver an

money, a gold coin of the United States, of the value of five dollars. It weighs one hundred and twenty-nine grains. Of one thousand parts, nine hundred are of pure gold, and one h

is a seal used in the English chancery for the sealing of commissions to delegates appointed upon any appeal, either in ecclesiastical or marine causes.

A public building used public luse$ as the city hall, the town hail. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habita. tion.

Scotch law. The crime of hamesucken consists in “the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling. house.” 1 Hume, 312; Burnett, 86; Alison’s Princ. of the Cr. Law of

The femate issue of a cow, which issue has not had a calf. A beast of this kind two years and a half old was held to be improperly described in an indictment as a cow. 2 East, P.C.

(CONVENTIONAL,) civil law. <A conventional heir is one who takes a succession by virtue of a contract; for example a marriage contract which entitles the heir to the succession.

(IRREGULAR) tn Louistana. Irregular heirs are those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. See Civ. Code of Lo. art. 8

or heir at common law, in the English law. The heir at common law is he who after his father or ancestor’s death has a right to, and is introduced into all his lands, tenements and

A subject-matter of inheritance, but presumptive heir is one who in the not the inheritance itself;. it cannot, present circumstances would be en- therefore, by its own intrinsic f

FORCED. Vide Forced hetrs.

(2) Inviergoigne—p. 4—to the Repronch—translated in condemnation. Fissend les viencs—13—make their views—make their Vianes. ! La Neece, le Ante le Heirc, lc Roy—W—the Niece being t

measures. In England a hide of land, according to some ancient manuscripts, contained one hundred and twenty acres.

An officer appointed in some cities who bears this name. His powers are generally limited to matters of police, and are not more extensive in these respects than those of constable

contracts, he who, at an auction, offers the The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. A distinction ha

This term, which is frequently used in the laws of the United States, signifies the unenclosed waters of the ocean on the sea coast which are without the boundaries of low water ma

is that part of the shore of the sea to which the waves reach on ordinary occasions, when the tide is at its highest, 6 Mass. R. 435. Vide Sea shore.

Vide Road, Street, Way, and 4 Vin. Ab. 502; 3 Bac. Ab. 492; Com. Dig. Chemin; Dane’s Ab. Index, h. t.; Egremont on Highways; Wellbeloved on Highways; Woolrych on Ways.

a robber on the highway. a

Eng. law. A person who carries from door to door, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like.

contracts, is a bailment, where a compensation is to be given for the use of a thing or for labour or services about it. 2 Kent’s Com. 456; 1 Bell’s Com. 451; Story on Bailm. § 369

contracts. Called in the civil law, conductor, and in the French law, conducteur, procureur, locataire, is he who takes a thing from another, to use it, and pays a compensation the

a title commonwealth. Const. part 2, ¢. 2,8. 1, art. 1.

A title given by the constitution of Massachusetts to the lieutenant governor of that commonwealth. Const. part, 2,c. 2, s. 2, art. 1. -

evidence. The recital of facts written and given out for true. Facts stated in ancient histories may be read in evidence, on the ground of their notoriety. Skin. R. 14; 1 Ventr. R.

A measure of wine, oil, and the like, containing half a pipe, the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons.

The entry of a stranger - after the death of the ancestor, and before the heir or devisee takes possession, by which the rightful possession of the heir or devisee is defeated. 3 B

The holder of a bill of exchange is the person who is legally in the possession of it, either by endorseiment or delivery, or both, and entitled to receive payment either from the

the act of keeping possession by the tenant, without the consent of the landlord, of premises which the latter, or those under whom he claims, had leased to the former, after the t

Vide Olograph.

Engl. law, is an acknowledgment made by the vassal in the presence of his lord, that he is his man, that is, his subject or vassal. The form in law French was, Jeo deveigne vostre

A person delivered in the possession of a public enemy in time of war as a security for the performance of a contract entered into between the belligerents. Hostages are frequently

Engl. law. A right reserved to the lords to be

A state of open enmity, open war. Hostility, as it regards individuals, may be permanent or temporary; it is permanent when the individual is a citizen or subject of the government

estates. This homely term is used figuratively to signify the blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally among those entitled to it.

measure of time, is the space of sixty minutes, or the twenty-fourth part of a natural day. Vide Date, Fraction, and Co. Litt. 135.

estates, a place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to ditferent thingx In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage a

An allowance of necessary timber out of the land. lord’s woods, for the repairing and support of a house or tenement. This belongs of common right to any lessee for years or for li

one who oc. cupies a house. A person who occupies every room in the house, under a lease, except one, which is reserved for his landlord, who pays all the taxes, is not a housekeep

puntshment. The name given to a rison for juvenile delinquents. hese houses are regulated in the United States on the most humane principles, by special local laws. HOUSE OF REPRES

Eng. law. A mode of pursuing felons, or such as have dangerously wounded any person, or assaulted any one with intent to rob him, by the constable, for the purpose of arresting the

an usher of a court. In France, an officer of this name performs many of the duties which in this country devolve on the sheriff or constable.

Eng. law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases when an offence is committed within the hundred, the inhabitants are civilly responsibl

in England, are inhabitants of a local division of a county, who, by several statutes, are held to be liable in the cases therein specified to make good the loss sustained by perso

The necessity for taking food. Hunger is no excuse for larceny. 1 Hale, P. C. 54; 4 Bl. Com. 31. It is a matter which applies itself strongly to the consciences of the judges in mi

Eng. law, A_ species of

mer. law. Vide Ship’s husband.

old Engl. law. The ancient name of the offence now called burglary.

Engl. law. The mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city.

measure of density (for fluids), is an instrument, which being immersed in fluids, as, in water, brine, beer, brandy, &c. determines the proportion of their densities, or their spe

civil law. This term is used principally in the civil law; it is defined to be a right which a creditor has over a thing belonging to another, and which consists in the power to ca