Ham
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Properly a house; 4 Inst. 294; a vill; a piece of ground shaped like the ham of the leg; Spelman. A piece of land; a home close, or little meadow; a narrow skirt, hem, or edge of meadow. A collection of houses; a village or town. Hence the names of many places in England ending with ham, as Nottingham, Buckingham, etc. Spelman.
In Saxon and old English law. A house or dwelling; a home. At ham; at home. LL. Ine, c. 5. Spelman supposes the radical meaning to be an enclosure or circuit, something that goes around. Hence the hem of a garment.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A place of dwelling; a homeclose; a little narrow meadow. Blount A house or little village. Cowell.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
sax.
In Saxon and old English law. A house or dwelling; a home; a collection of houses; a village or town; a piece of land; a home close, or little meadow.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
sax. A home; house. Hamesecken; v. Eaimsucken. Hamsocne: the privilege of a man's house, or the breach thereof.