Law Dictionary

See Homicide per infortunium .

A killing while engaged in a lawful act.

A killing in self-defense.

Homage.

See "De Homine Capto in Withernam." HOMINE ELIGENDO (Lat.) In English law. A writ directed to a corporation, requiring the members to make choice of a new man, to keep the one part

A writ to take him that had taken any band man or woman, and led him or her out of the country, so that he or she could not be replevied acoording to law. Reg. Orig. 79.

A writ directing members of a corporation to select a successor to a dead man who had held one part of an indenture under the statute merchant. See Statute merchant .

See De Hou-

See De homine replegiando .

Plural of Homo.

Men of a middleand base condition. Blount.

In feudal law.' Liege men; feudal tenants or vassals, especially those who held immediately of the sovereign. 1 Bl. Comm. 367. HOMINUM CAUSA JUS CONSTITUTUM est. Law is established

In feudal law. Liege men; feudal tenants or vassals, especially those who held immediately of the sovereign. 1 Bl. Comm, 367, Hominum causa jus constitutum est. Law is established

Homage.

Law is constituted for the benefit of men.

I. I. In old English law. The maiming of a man.

In old English law. The maiming of a man. Blount. HOMMES DE FIEF (Fr.) In feudal law. Men of the fief; feudal tenants; the peers in the lords' courts. Montesq. Esp. des Lois, liv.

A man.

Feudal tenants.

Same as Hommes de fief.

A man; a feudal tenant or vassal.

A freeman by deed or charter.

One manumitted from slavery by charter,

In feudal law. One who surrendered himself into the power of another for the sake of protection or support. L. Ripuar, tit. 72, § 5.

A church vassal; one who was bound to serve a church, especially to do service of an agricultural character. Spelman.

A man of the army (exercitus); a soldier.

A man of the army, (exercitus;) a soldier.

A vassal or tenant; one who held a fee (feodum), or part of a fee. Spelman. HOMO FISCALIS (or FISCALINUS). A servant or vassal belonging to the treasury or fiscus. HOMO FRANCU8, HO

or FISCALINUS, A servant or vassal belonging to the treasury or fiscus.

A servant or vassal belonging to the treasury or fiscus.

A freeman.

The term "homogeneous case" means a sealed case containing only product that has a single National Drug Code number belonging to a single lot.

A freeman.

A freeman.

A liege man; a subject;

In Spanish law. The tacit consent and approval, inferred by law from the omission of the parties, for the space of ten days, to complain of the sentences of arbitrators, appointmen

In civil law. To confirm or approve; to consent or assent; to confess. Calv. Lex. Sometimes corruptly written "emologare."

In modern civil law. To approve; to confirm; as, a court homologates a proceeding. See "Homologation." Literally, to use the same words with another; to say the like. 9 Mart. (La.)

In Civil Law. Approbation; confirmation by a court of justice; a judgment which orders the execution of some act; as, the approbation of an award, and ordering execution on the sam

I. In feudal law. A liege vassal.

In feudal law. A new tenant or vassal; one who was invested with a new fee. Spelman.

(Civil Law) Cases containing repetitions of the same law.

A term applied in the civll law to cases where a law was repeated or laid down in the same terms or to the same effort, more than once. Cases of iteration and repetition. 2 Kent, C

In feudal law. A feudal bondman or vassal; one who belonged to the soil (qui glebae adscribitur). HOMO POTEST ESSE HABILIS ET INhabllis diversis temporibus. A man may be capable an

A man can be capable and incapable at different times.

5 Coke, 98. A man may be capable and incapable at different times.

A king's vassal. L. Ripuar, tit. 11, §3.

A Roman. An appellation given to the old inhabitants of Gaul and other Roman provinces, and retained in the laws of the barbarous nations. L. Sails, tit. 34, § 3; Spelman.

A man of three letters; i. e., '%" "u," "r,"— a thief. Wharton. HOMO VOCABULUM EST NATURAE; persona juris civilis. "Man" (homo) is a term of nature; "person" (persona) of the civil

Man is ah appellation of nature, person is one of the civil law.

Man (homo) is a term of nature: person (persona) of civil law. Calvin.

Same as Hamesecken.

sax. In old English law. A mansion-house, or homestall.

Honorable, which see.

Sax. Having in hand. See Handhabend.

All that is required of him in such case—he being a competent officer—in determining whether particular goods are at the time in shipping order and condition, or can be received in

/. In eivil and old English law. Honorably; creditably; becomingly; virtuously. Honeste vivere alteri non laedere, suum cuique tribuere: to live honorably, injure not another, rend

To live honestly.

Live honestly, injure not another, distribute to each one his own.

alteri non Isedere, suum cuique tribuere, I. To live honestlj, injure not another, render to each his own. Honour,^., Honor, I. Honor. A nobler sort of seigniory, v. Challenge, Acc

Lat. Of good character or standing. Coram duobus vel pluribus viris legalibus et honestis, before two or more lawful and good men. Bractfol. 61.

When a transaction is as compatible with honesty as with dishonesty, the former is always presumed.^ A person who keeps in his employ a servant found to be dishonest cannot have re

The term “honey” means the nectar and saccharine exudations of plants which are gathered, modified, and stored in the comb by honey bees.

As used in this chapter, the term “honeybee” means all life stages and the germ plasm of honeybees of the genus Apis, except honeybee semen.

The term “Honey Board” means the board provided for under section 4606(c) of this title.

Honey production.—The term “honey production” means all beekeeping operations related to— (A) managing honey bee colonies to produce honey; (B) harvesting honey from the colonies;

The term “honey products” means products produced, in whole or part, from honey.

the term “Hong Kong” means, prior to July 1, 1997, the British Dependent Territory of Hong Kong, and on and after July 1, 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the P

In English Law. The seigniory of a lord paramount. 2 Bl. Comm. 91. In Common Law. To accept a bill of exchange; to pay a bill accepted, or a promissory note, on the day it becomes

A title of courtesy given in England to the younger children of earls, and the children of viscounts and barons, and, collectively, to the house of commons. In America, the word is

a formal final judgment passed by the government upon the entire military record of the soldier, and an authoritative declaration by it that he had left the service in a status of

The term “honoraria” means the plural of “honorarium” as defined in section 13141 of this title .

1. In the civil law. An honorary or free gift; a gratuitous payment; a counsellor's fee.

a payment of money or any thing of value for an appearance, speech or article by a Member, officer or employee, excluding any actual and necessary travel expenses incurred by such

Lat In Roman law. The law of the prætorB and the edicis of the ædiles.

Without fee, profit, or reward, either to or by the holder of the honorary position. 81 N. Y. 255.

Those without emolument. 3 & 4 Viet, c. 113, § 23.

Titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion or ali the rest. 2 Bl. Comm. 56.

Titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest

Services by which lands in grand serjeantry were held; such as to hold king's banner, or to hold his head in the ship which carried him from Dover to Whitsand, etc. 2 Sharswood, Bl

Trustees to preserve contingent remainders. So called because they are bound, in honor only, to decide on the most proper and prudential course. Lewin, Trusts, 408. HONTFONGENTHEF

Tribunals held within honors. Cowell.

By reason of honor or privilege. See Challenge.

The seignory of a lord paramount. 2 Bla. Com. 91. In Domesday Book, the complex of landed property and rights combined in one person and perpetuated as a unit after the original ho

In Saxon law. a thief taken with hondhabend; i. e., having the thing stolen in his hand. Cowell.

L. Fr. Shame; evil; disgrace, Hony soit qui mal y pense, evil be to him who evil thinks.

A hill. Co. Llttfib. H 0 PC 0 N. A valley. Cowell.

Land plowed and sown every year.

“Hoopa Indian blood” means that degree of ancestry derived from an Indian of the Hunstang, Hupa, Miskut, Redwood, Saiaz, Sermalton, Tish-Tang-Atan, South Fork, or Grouse Creek Band

"Hoopa Valley Reservation" means the reservation described in section 1300i–1(b) of this title;

“Hoopa Valley Tribe” means the Hoopa Valley Tribe, organized under the constitution and amendments approved by the Secretary on November 20, 1933, September 4, 1952, August 9, 1963

In old English law. A valley. Cowell.

A valley.

The term “HOPE for Homeowners Program” means the program established under this section.

the term “Hopi Partitioned Lands” means lands located in the Hopi Partitioned Area, as defined in section 168.1(g) of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on October

A Chinese term for a collector; an overseer of commerce.

Lat. An hour; the hour. —Hora aurorae. In old English law. The morning bell, as ignitegium or cover feu (curfew) was the evening bell. —Horse juridicæ, or judiciæ. Hours during whi

In old English law. The morning bell, as ignitegium or coverfeu (curfew) was the evening bell. Hora non est multum de substantia negotii, licet in appollo de ea aliquando fiat ment

In old English law. The morning bell. Cowell. HORA NON EST MULTUM DE SUBstantla negotll, licet In appello de ea allquando flat mentlo. The hour is not of much consequence as to the

The hours of a court’s sessions.