Hamma
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A close joining to a house; a croft; a little meadow.
Cowell.
In Old English Law. The right of security and privacy in a man's house.
Du Cange
The breach of this privilege by a forcible entry of a house is breach of the peace. Anc. Inst. Eng.; Du Cange; Bracton, lib.
3, tr. 2, c. 2, § 3.
The right to entertain jurisdiction of the offense. Will. Thorn, p. 2030; Spelman; Du Cange. Immunity from punishment for such offense. Id.; Fleta, lib.
1, c. 44, § 18.
An insult offered in one's own house (insultus f actus in domo). Brompton, p. 957; Du Cange. Variously spelled hamsoca, hamsocua, hamsoken, haimsuken, hamesaken.