Law Dictionary

House of Lords.

A lord.

Sax. A lord's protection. Du Cange.

Treason.

Sax. A servant fed at his master's cost

The benefit of the law. Du Cange; Toml. HLOTH (Sax.). An unlawful company. Moz. and W. HLOTHBOTE (Sax. hloth, company, and bote, compensation). In Old English Law. Fine for presenc

In practice. (Fr. Cleigner, to remove to a distance; to remove afar off.) A return to a writ of replevin, when the chattels have been removed out of the way of the sheriff.

Eloigned. A _ return made by a sheriff to a writ de homine replegyéando, stating that the party to be replevied has been eloigned, or couveyed out of his jurisdiction. % Bl. Comm.

A fine for attending a hlothe.

An unlawful assembly of from eight to thirty-five persons. Cowell. See "Herge." HOC (Lat.) This.

587, 23 Am. St. Rep. 869; Campbell’s Adin’r v. Gullatt, 43 Ala. 67; Askew v. Dupree, 30 Ga. 173; Hayes v. People, 25 N. Y. 390, 82 Am. Dec. 364. But see Grisham V. State, 2 Yerg. (

A harbor; a port.

In Roman law. Own and necessary heirs; i. e., the lineal descendants of the estate-leaver. They were called "necessary" heirs, because it was the law that made them heirs, and not

I I., Hundredary, chief officer of a hundred; a

Pertaining to a city, town or place having the right of local government; belonging to or affecting a particular state or separate community. Municipal aid: aid given by a municipa

sax. In old English certain family.,

See Ship's Husband.

I.L In old Scots agriculture.

Same as Hoarding.

A protective board fence; a palisade; a billboard.

In English law. An an, cient gild or fraternity at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who dealt in sea coal. St. 21 Jac. I. c. 3.

A measure of weight in use in Wales, equal to 168 pounds, being made up of four Welsh pecks of 42 pounds each. Hughes v. Humphreys, 26 Eng. L. & Eq. 132.

In old English law. Light horsemen or bowmen; also certain tenants, bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion or such like peril, tow

This; with, by, or in, this.

A hoke, hole, or lesser pit of salt. Cowell.

Same as Hotchpot.

I. With this expectation. Hoc loco: in this place. Hoc nomine: in this name. Hoc paratus est Yeriflcare: v. Et hoe paratus, etc. Hoc quidem perquam durum est, sed ita lex scripta e

An ancient English festival, the second or third Tuesday after Easter.

or HOCQUETEUR. A knight of the post; a decayed man; a basket carrier. Cowell.

A knight of the post; a decayed man; a basket carrier. Cowell.

Contributions to celebrate hock-day.

Same as Hamstring.

This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants and bondmen might solemnize the day on which the English conquered the Danes, being the second Tuesday after Easter week. Cow

See "Et hoc, etc." HOC SERVABITUR QUOD INITIO CONvenlt. This shall be preserved which is useful in the beginning. Dig. 50. 17. 23; Bracton, 73b.

This he is ready to verify by the record.

Lat. (This indeed ls exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law.) An observation quoted by Black-stone as used by Ulpian in the civil law; and

That shall be preserved which was agreeable in the beginning.

Under this title.

This makes clear to you.

By this word.

Same as Hotchpot.

A name given to a legislative act which embraces many subjects. Such acts, besides being evident proofs of the ignorance of the makers of them, or of their want of good faith, are

In Old English Law. A hill or mountain. Domesday. Among the Saxons, a stranger guest was, the first night of his stay, called uncuth, or unknown; the second, gust, guest; the third

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79, §§ 4, 12. A young hog. Cowell.

The term “hog class” means, as applicable— (A) barrows or gilts; (B) sows; or (C) boars or stags.

Agenhyne, sax. the household; a guest on

or HOGIETUS. A hog or swine. Cowell.

A hog or swine. Cowell.

a domestic.

Township officers at one time elected in New York, whose duty was to catch hogs running at large, and put rings in their noses. 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 522. HOGHENHYNE (from Saxon hogh, h

A liquid measure, containing half a pipe; the fourth part of a tun, or sixty-three gallons.

With or in that view; with that intent or object. Hale, Anal. § 2.

n. In old law. Tenure. A word constantly occurring in conjunction with others, as freehold, leasehold, copyhold, etc., but rarely met with in the separate form. v. I. To possess in

To bind; to be of legal efficacy; to judge; to be of opinion; to be the tenant of another; to have an estate of another on condition of paying rent or performing service; to have i

The term “holder” means a person that has possession in fact or by operation of law of a receipt or any electronic document. / The term “holder” means an eligible lender who owns a

See Bona Fide Holder eob Value.

in English law, is “a holder who has taken a bill of exchange (check or note) complete and regular on the face of it, under the following conditions, namely: (a) That he became the

"a holder who has taken a bill of exchange (check or note) complete and regular on the face of it, under the following conditions, namely; (a) That he became the holder of it befor

a person who takes a bill, which upon the face of it was dishonoured, cannot be allowed to claim the privileges which belong to a bona fide holder without notice. If he chooses to

as long as the holder is passive, all his remedies remain... he is not bound to active diligence. But if the holder enters into a valid contract for delay, he thereby suspends his

A court in South Carolina for the trial of slaves and free persons of color for criminal offences. Now abolished.

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman.

In English Law. A piece of land held — An Scotch Law. The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior to the vassal. Bell, Diet.

The dominant characteristic of a holding company is the ownership of securities by which it is possible to control or substantially to influence the policies and management of one

where a holding company directly intervenes in the management of its subsidiaries so as to treat them as mere departments of its own enterprise, it is responsible for the obligatio

For purposes of this subsection, the terms “associate company”, “holding company”, and “holding company system” have the meaning given those terms in the Public Utility Holding Com

It is true that the Pacific company practically owns the controlling stock in the Gulf company, and that both companies constitute elements of the Rock Island system. But the holdi

“holding of discrimination” means a holding by a United States court, a State court, or an administrative law judge appointed under section 3105 of title 5 , United States Code, th

See Hold over .

the terms “diversified”, “employee benefit plan”, “holdings”, “mutual fund”, and “unit investment trust” have the meanings given those terms under section 2640.102 of title 5, Code

The term “holding temperature application” means a use of commercial refrigeration equipment other than a pull-down temperature application, except a blast chiller or freezer.

In criminni practice. A formality observed in the arraignment of prisoners. Held to be not absolutely necessary. 1 W. Bl.

To retain an office after the term has expired. See 20 Or. 365, 26 Pac. 170. To retain possession by a tenant after the expiration of his term. See 1 App. Div. 449, 37 N. Y. Supp.

To hear or try causes. 3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 35, 298.

The enhanced price which government emergency demand creates represents what can be exacted from the government whose demands in the emergency have created a sellers' market. In th

a holiday of not less than 24 hours.

Same as Halmote.

A constitutional monarchy. The crown is hereditary in the male line, or, failing male heirs, in the female line. The sovereign has the sole executive authority. He establishes mini

The term "Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership" or "Program" means the program established under subsection (b).

A small island.

In Spanish law. Olographi; a term applicable to the paper, document, disposition, and more particularly to the last will of a person, which, in order to be valid, must be wholly wr

What is written with one's own hand. See "Olograph."

A. will written entirely by the hand of the testator. See 104 Am. St. Rep. 22, note.

A grove.

Henry James. A new Jaw dictionary, containing expianations of such technical terms and phrases as occur in the works of legal authors, in the practice of the courts, and in the par

Franz von. Hechts- Lexicon. [Part second of his Eneyclopwdie der Rechts-wissenschaft.] 2 yois. 8vo. Leipsie, 1576.

A league entered into by Alexander I., the Czar of Russia, Francis I., emperor of Austria, and William III., King of Prussia. The alliance was entered into at Paris, 26 Sept. 1815,

See Gon’S Penny. TTlthin holy orders are archbishops, bishops, priests, and deacons. The form of ordination in England must be according to the form in the Book of Common Prayer. B

Same as Halmote.

The rank or station of ecclesiastical officers.

In ecclesiastical law. The orders or dignities of the church. Those within holy orders are archbishops, bishops, priests and deacons. The form of ordination must be according to th

A formal acknowledgment or profession of fealty by a feudal vassal or tenant to his lord.

Homage was so called where time out of mind a man and his ancestors had held by homage; and in this case the lord who had received the homage was bound to acquit the tenant of all

The Jury of a lord's court, or court baron. So called because generally composed of those who owed homage to the lord, or the pares curiae. Kitch. Cts.; 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 54,

That kind of homage which was due to the sovereign alone as supreme lord, and which was done without any saving or exception of the rights of other lords. Spelman.

One that is bound to do homage to another. Jacob.

A writ to the escheator commanding him to deliver seisin of lands to the heir of the king's tenant, notwithstanding hls homage not done. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 269.

Homage, (g. v.)

NON PER PROCURAtores nee per literas fieri potuit, sed in propria persona tam domini quam tenentis capi debet et fieri. Homage cannot be done by proxy, nor by letters, but must be

Liege homage; that kind of homafee which was due to the sovereign alone as supreme lord, and which was done without any saving or exception of the rights of other lords. Spelman. S