Horning
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In Scotch law
A process issuing on a decree of court of sessions, or of an inferior court, by which the debtor is charged to perform, in terms of his obligation, or on failure made liable to caption, that is, imprisonment. Bell, Diet. "Horning, Letters of"; "Diligence." The name comes from the ancient custom of proclaiming letters of horning not obeyed, and declaring the recusant a rebel, with three blasts of a horn, called "putting him to the horn."
1 Ross, Lect. 258, 308.
HORS (Law Fr.) Out; out of; without. Hors son sen, out of his mind. Britt. c.
85.
HORS DE SON FEE (Fr. out of his fee).
In old English law
A plea to an action brought by one who claimed to be lord for in question was out of the fee of the demandant.
9 Coke, 30; 2 Mod. 104.
HORS PRIS (Law Fr.) Except.