A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. L That you have the body. In a general sense, any writ having for its object to bring a person before a court or judge, as, for instance, a common capias; but more particularly

LI To have; to be held. One of the formal parts of a deed, following immediately after the premises; so called from the word habendum, with which it commenced, and literally transl

I To hava Habere facias possessionem: cause you to have possession; a writ that issues for a successful plaintiff in ejectment^ In old English law. Habere ad rectum: to have one [f

I. In, the Roman law. Have, or take your effects to yourself. One of the old Roman forms of divorcing a wifa

I. Able; fit; suitable; sound; merchantabla Habiles ad matrimonium: constitutionally fit for matrimony.

In Scots law. Held and reputed.

/n In French and Canadian law. A resident tenant; a settler.

I. To inhabit; to dwell or reside.

I. A habitation, or dwelling. In the civil law. The right of dwelling; the right of free residence in another's house.

A dwelling-house or home.

I. In old English law. Habit; apparel; dress or garb. Habitus et tonsura clericalis: the clerical habit and tonsure. Habitus religrionis: the habit of religion.

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holy orders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders.

heres, pi. baeredes, I. In old English law. An heir; a person who takes an estate of inheritance by the act of God and right of blood. Haeredem Deus facit, non homo: God makes the

In old English held in certain ports.

I. I. In old English law. a hedge; a military enclosure.

haya, I. l, Haie, haye, I

fr. and sax. In old to take thorns, etc., to make

sc. In Scots law. Whole

I. I In old Scots goods and gear, and bring

sc. In Scots law. person in his own house.

The blood of one mother's side only. Half breviated common clause which it is stated that the year: the period of one hours being rejected. In English law. Half seal: of commission

halimote, Iialmot, sax. In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, that is, a lord's court; a court of a manor, or Court baron.

halimote, halmot, lialmote, sax. In old English law. A meeting of citizens in their public hall; a folcmot.

halla, LI. In old English law. A chief mansion-house or habitation.

In old English law. A toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall; a toll due to the lord of a fair or market, for commodities vended in the common hall of the place.

1. 1. A halmote, or halimot. Properly halimotus.

Iiallmot, haligemot, sax. In old English law. A holy or ecclesiastical court; otherwise called circgemot, and chirgemot.

sax. In old English law. People who held land for the service of repairing or defending a church or sepulchre.

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.

hamesucken, haimsuckeu. In Scots law. A violent entering into a house without license or against the peace, and the seeking and assaulting of the householder there; housebreaking o

sax. In Saxon law. An assault made in a house; a breach of the peace in a private house.

hamel, hampsel, sax., Hambelettam, hamleta, hamletta, liamelettus, hamlettus, 1. 1., Hamel, hamele, hamelle, I. fr. In old English law. A little village, or vill; a part or member

iiama, 1.1 A home close; a small croft; a little meadow, or ham; a narrow edge of meadow or grass, in a common field.

hamsokne, hamsockne, hamsoken, hamsockene, homesoken, sax., Hamsoca, I. I. In Saxon law. The privilege or liberty of a man's own house; a breach of such privilege by a violent entr

hanper, hamper. In old English law. A bag or basket of larger size, in which the fees arising from the sealing of writs, charters, etc., in chanceiy were anciently kept. Hanaper ol

In old English law. An oath; so called from the use of the hand in making it; one who made oath, especially one who swore for another; a compurgator.

hand habhend, hand habbinde, sax. In Saxon law. A thief caught with the thing stolen in his hand, or possession.

In Oothie law. A sale made or confirmed by striking hands; the price or earnest given immediately after or instead of striking bands.

To remain undetermined.

Pending; during the pendency.

hangwit, sax. In Saxon law. A fine for hanging a thief without trial, or for his escape; an immunity or acquittance from such fine.

I. In the civil law. Drawing; the drawing of water; the right of drawing water.

Happer, I. fr. To catch or snatch; to get, gain or obtain; to get by chance.

To shelter or secrete; to receive and secrete a person, especially a fugitive; to receive and secrete illegally, or in opposition to the claim of another.

A shelter or safe station for vessels; a haven or port

As used in sentencing convicted persons, ordinary industry at some mechanical trade.

harrou, fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cry after felons and malefactors.

hearth penny. In old English law. A tax or tribute of a penny, imposed on every hearth or house.

I. I. In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which the livery of seisin might be made, where there was a house on the premises.

In old Scots law. The form of entering an heir in a subject situated within a royal borough, which was by the heh-'s taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door, the symbol of p

I. In the civil law. A spear; the badge of a sale by auction. Hast% snbjicere: to put under the spear; to put up at auction. In feudal law. A spear; the symbol used in making inves

An allowance formerly made to the master of a vessel, for the purchase of winter clothing.

hangrith, sax. In Saxon and old English law. Peace or protection given by the king with his own hand.

haute, halt, hault,Z./r. In old English law. High. Hautchemiu:

A large place for the safe riding of ships.

In old English law. A house; a small quantity of land lying near a house.

A person who carries goods about from place to place for sale.

Haya, 1. 1. In old English law. A hedge; a piece of ground enclosed with a hedge; an enclosure in a forest or park.

heybote. Hedgebote; an allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences.

haward, heyward. In English law. An officer who keeps the common herd or cattle of a town.

I. I. In old English law. To make a hedga

or poll money, or the law. A head of land; a of raft or boat. prison or work-house.: to load a vessel; to load a Carcare et discarcare: loaded; freighted. Carcatio: of confinement

The upper part; the beginning or source.

headborongh. In Saxon law. A chief pledge; the head or principal man of a decennary.

A slip of unploughed land left at the head or end of a ploughed field.

halsfang, healfang, sax. In Saxon law. The pillory; a fine paid as a commutation for punishment by the pillory.

Freedom from sickness or suffering, a right to the enjoyment of which is one of the absolute rights of persons.

The measure in which the commodities measured are heaped above the top of the vessel containing them.

That stage of proceeding in a cause in equity which consists in th6 hearing of the arguments of counsel and which corresponds to the trial of a cause at law.

Evidence of what others have been heard to say; testimony from the relation of third pei-sons.

In English law. A tax of two shillings upon every hearth, granted by statutes 13 and 14 Car. IL, c. 10, and abolished by statute 1 W. & M., st. 1, c. 10. Hearth silver: a species o

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief and the trial within a certain liberty.

I. I In old English law. A port or haven; a wharf or landing place.

I. I. In old English law. A toll or custom paid at a wharf for landing goods.

An allowance to a tenant of wood for repairing hedges or fences.

heinfare, hainfar, hamfare, sax. In Saxon law. The flight,

Heier, sax. One who, on the death of another, succeeds to his estate by descent, i. e. by right of blood and operation of law. Heir apparent: an heir whose right of inheritance is

heir-lome. In English law. A personal chattel which goes by special custom to the heir, with the inheritance, as articles of household furniture, or, according to Coke, fish in a p

In Scots law. Movables which the law withholds from the executors or nearest of kin, and gives to the heir.

I. In old English law. A making better; an improvement or betterment; a melioration.

In old English law. A prison; a house of correction.

sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a, thief.

sax. In old English law. A surety.

In English law. An officer at arms whose duties relate to the management of public pageants and solemnities, and the preservation of genealogies and coat armour. Heralds' college:

I. l, Herbage. In old English law. The produce or vesture Of land which is fed upon by cattle; the right of feeding cattle upon the same; the right of pasturage. Herbarium anterius

I I. In old English law. A lodging for guests.

herbigare, I. l, Herberger, /. fr. In old English law. To harbor; to entertain, Herbergatus: entertained; spent at an inn.

erciscere, I. I. To divide or partition.

erciscnnda, I In the civil law. To be divided.

lierdewic, hardewice. In old English law. A grange, or place for cattle and husbandry; a herdsman's village.

Anything that may be inherited, whether a thing corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal or mixed. Corporeal hereditaments are such as are tangible, visible and as may pass by live

sax. In old English law. A heriot.

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

heriotum, hariotnm, heriettum, 1. 1. In old English law. A heriot, or hereot

v. Hceres.

so. In old Sci>fs law. Theft or robbery.

In English law. An offense against religion, consisting in a denial of some of the essential doctrines of Christianity, publicly and obstinately avowed.

In Saxon law. A leader or commander of an army, on land or at sea; constable, or marshal.

In Scots law. A gift or present by a tenant to his lord as a token of reverence.

In English law. A customary tribute of goods or chattels, payable to the lord of the fee, on the decease of the owner of the land, — now confined for the most part to copyhold tenu