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or JUDICIA. Tiours during which the judges sat in court to attend to judicial business.

The hour is not of much consequence as to the substance of business, although in appeal it is sometimes mentioned. 1 Bulst 82.

The hour is not of much consequence in business matters, but mention of it is sometimes made in appeals.

In Spanish law. A gallows; the punishment of hanging. White, New Recop. bk. 2, tit. 19, c, 4, § 1.

In old records. A cow in calf.

A treasurer.

A hoard, treasury, or repository. Cowell.

In old records. Barley. Hordeum palmate, beer barley, as distinguished from common barley, which was called "hordeum quadragesimale." Blount.

Uniform. See 60 Minn. 461, 62 N. W. 826.

When retailers are forced to abandon price competition, they are driven into a compact in violation of the spirit of the proviso which forbids 'horizontal' price fixing. A real san

Sealy, Inc., is an instrumentality of the licensees for purposes of the horizontal territorial allocation. It is not the principal. ... It would violate reality to treat them as eq

naked restraints of trade with no purpose except stifling of competition

In old Scotch practice. A kind of trumpet used in denouncing contumacious persons, rebels, and outlaws, which was done with three blasts of the horn by the king's sergeant. This wa

A book containing the first principles of any science or branch of knowledge; a primer, so called because the material was horn. Horn book law. The elementary or rudimentary law, c

(Sax.) In old E^nglish law. A tax within a forest, paid for horned beasts. Cowell; Blount.

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 mad

Tenure by winding a horn on approach of enemy, called "tenure by cornage." If lands were held by this tenure of the king, it was grand serjeantry; if of a private person, knight se

A phrase used to describe the commoning together of homed beasts of different species.

The promiscuous feeding of bulls and cows or all horned beasts that are allowed to run together upon the same common. Spelman.

A place for keeping grain, a storehouse. Calvinus, Lex.; Bract, fol. 48. HORS DE SON FEE (Fr. out of his fee). In Old English Law. A plea to an action brought by one who claimed to

Out; outside.

Out of the combat or struggle.

A plea in an action seeking to hold the goods of one who had been a tenant, meaning, “I am no longer your tenant, and am, with my goods, out of your land.” See 12 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 3.

Until a horse has attained the age of four years, he is called a "colt.'' 1 Russ. & R. 416. This word is sometimes used as a generic name for all animals of the horse kind. 3 Brev.

The name applied to the public office in Whitehall appropriated to the departments under the general-commandiug-ln-chief. The term is also used conventionally to signify the milita

I. Hours in which the court sits.

Hours during which the judges sat in court to attend to judicial business.

“horsemen’s group” means, with reference to the applicable host racing association, the group which represents the majority of owners and trainers racing there, for the races subje

The term “horseracing anti-doping and medication control program” means the anti-doping and medication program established under section 3055(a) of this title .

Except.

In Old English Law. The wealh, or Briton who had the care of the king’s horses.

In Old English Law. A service or corvie, consisting in watching the horses of the lord. Anc. Inst. Eng.

Same as Chimney-money.

A garden.

One that kills his guest or host

(Lat.) In civil and old English law. A guest. 8 Co. 32, Calye's case. A host or entertainer. Calv. Lex. More commonly hoepitator. HOSPITATOR (Lat.) A host or entertainer. Hospitato

A great chamberlain.

In this section, the term “hospice care” means the items and services described in section 1861(dd) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1395x(dd) ). / The term “hospice care” me

The term “hospice program” means a public agency or private organization (or a subdivision thereof) which— (A) (i) is primarily engaged in providing the care and services described

a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four hours in any week of three or more nonre

For purposes of this subsection, the term “hospital acquired condition” means a condition identified for purposes of subsection (d)(4)(D)(iv) and any other condition determined app

The term “hospital-based” means, with respect to an agency, owned or operated by a hospital. / The term “hospital-based” means, with respect to an eligible professional, a professi

For purposes of clause (i), the term “hospital-based eligible professional” means, with respect to covered professional services furnished by an eligible professional during the EH

The term "hospital care" includes— (A) (i) medical services rendered in the course of the hospitalization of any veteran, and (ii) travel and incidental expenses pursuant

The term “hospital facilities” means buildings housing a hospital and related facilities, including laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training facilities and c

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “Hospital Insurance Trust Fund ratio” means, with respect to any calendar year, the ratio of— (I) the balance in the Federal Hospital In

The terms “physician” and “medical care” and “hospitalization” include osteopathic practitioners or the services of osteopathic practitioners and hospitals within the scope of thei

A member of an order of knights who cared for the sick and the poor.

The knights of a religious order, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. All their lands and goods in England were given to the sover

An innkeeper; a host.

An innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32.

The marshal of a camp.

An innkeeper.

Plural of Hospes.

Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Reg. Orig. 105. Hospitia curiae, inns of court. Hospitia cancellariae, inns of chancery. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 428, 429; 4 Reeve, Hist. Eng.

Inns of court, which see.

The killing of a host or guest at an inn; the killer.

A place for the entertainment of guests. See 2 Daly (N. Y.), 15.

A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallaehia.

A Turkish governor in l^oldavia or Wallachia.

An innkeeper; to put up at an inn. See 2 Daly (N. Y.), 15.

A person delivered into the possession of a public enemy in the time of war, as a security for the performance of a contract entered into between the belligerents. Hostages are fre

the term “hostage taking” has the meaning given that term in Article 1 of the International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages;

the term “host country” means a foreign country which is— (A) the participant in or the site of the proposed renewable energy technology project; and (B) either— (i) classified as

In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment, anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell.

An innkeeper.

In English law. A right reserved to the lords to be lodged and entertained in the houses of their tenants.

An innkeeper.

An inn; a ’ lodging-house.

Enemies. "Enemies are those who declare war against us, or against whom we declare Var publicly; all others are pirates or robbers." Dig. 50. 16. 118. See "Enemy." HOSTES SUNT QUI

Enemies of the human race; pirates.

7 Coke, 24. Enemies are those with whom we declare war or who declare it against us; all others are traitors or pirates.

Enemies are those against whom we declare war or who declare it against us; others are traitors or pirates.

In old records. The host-bread or consecrated wafer, in the eucharist. Cowell.

One who kills an enemy.

H OSPITALAR I A. A pliice or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers.

A place or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers.

Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4.

An act of war or ono which tends to involve a nation in war with another.

The term “hostile casualty” means a person who, as a member of the Armed Forces, dies as the direct result of hostile action with the enemy, while in combat, while going to or retu

See "Embargo."

“hostile force or individual” means a nation, a subject of a foreign nation, or an individual serving a foreign nation— (A) engaged in a war against the United States or any of its

The term “hostile force or person” means any nation, any subject of a foreign nation, or any other person serving a foreign nation (1) engaged in a war against the United States or

This term as applied to au occupant of reni estate holding adversely, la not construed as implying actual enmity or ill will, but merely means that he claims to hold the possession

A witness who manifests so much hostility or prejudice under examination in chief that the party who has called him, or his representative, is allowed to cross-examine him, L e., t

The term “hostilities” means any conflict subject to the laws of war.

A state of open enmity; open war. Wolff. Dr. Nat. § 1191, Permanent hostility exists when the individual is a citizen or subject of the government at war. Temporary hostility exist

The term “host institution” means an existing entity that is located in the region that is— (A) a university or other institution of higher education; (B) a Department of Agricultu

In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in a monastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until about the time of Queen Elizabe

pi. liostes, I. An enemy; one who makes war by a formal proclamation of hostility. Hostes humani generis: pirates.

“host racing association” means any person who, pursuant to a license or other permission granted by the host State, conducts the horserace subject to the interstate wager;

“host racing commission” means that person designated by State statute or, in the absence of statute, by regulation, with jurisdiction to regulate the conduct of racing within the

The term “host State” means, with respect to a bank, a State, other than the home State of the bank, in which the bank maintains, or seeks to establish and maintain, a branch. / Th

The term “host transfer services” means any electronic fund transfer made by an automated teller machine operator in connection with a transaction initiated by a consumer at an aut

inducements of employees that are prohibited under § 8(b)(4)(A) in the absence of a hot cargo provision are likewise prohibited when there is such a provision.

HODGE-PODGE, or Hotchpotch. The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Comm. 190. The bringing together all the personal

Same as Hotchpot.

the way in which the Census Bureau, when conducting the year 2000 census, filled in certain gaps in its information and resolved certain conflicts in the data.

A public house for the enter' tainment of travelers and casual guests. 44 N. J. Law, 492. The term is synonymous with "inn" or "tavern." 2 Daly (N. Y.) 17; 84 Ala. 452; 54 Barb. (N

In this section, the term "hoteling" means an alternative work arrangement in which employees of one element of the intelligence community are authorized flexible work ar