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An ancient writ that lay for the lord, who, having by right the wardship of his tenant under age, could not obtain his person, the same being carried away by another person. Old Na

NON HOIVIO. God, and not man, makes the heir. Bracton, 62b. HAEREDEM EST NOMEN COLLECTIvum. Heir is a collective name. HAEREDES (Lat. plural of haerea). lu civil law. Heirs. HAERED

God makes an heir, not man.

Heirs.

Heirs is a collective name.

(Civil Law) Heirs who were not children or slaves of the decedent.

(Civil Law) Heirs made so without their election.

Nearest heirs; children or descendants.

More remote heirs.

(Civil Law) Descendants and haeredes necessarii.

An heir should be dealt with more leniently.

The next heir.

To his next heir or to a stranger, indeed a dangerous guardian, no one should be committed.

ALIA CORPORALIS, alia incorporalis; corporalis est, quae tangi potest et videri; incorporalis quae tangi non potest nee videri. An inheritance is tlther corporeal or incorporeal. C

An inheritance is either corporeal or incorporeal. Corporeal is what can be touched, or seen. Incorporeal is what cannot be touched or seen.

See "Damnosa Haereditas." HAEREDITAS EST SUCCESSIO IN UNIversum jus quod defunctus liabuerat. Inheritance is the succession to every right which was possessed by the late possessor

Inheritance is the succession to every right which the decedent had.

An inheritance which the heir has not yet received or accepted.

In the civil law. A sad or mournful inheritance or succession; as that of a parent to the estate of a child, which was regarded as disturbing the natural order of mortality (turbat

quam successio In universum jus, quod defunctus habuerit. The right of inheritance is nothing else than the faculty of succeeding to all the rights of the deceased. Dig. 50. 17. 62

An inheritance is nothing but the succession to all rights which the decedent had.

An inheritance never ascends.

A paternal inheritance.

Under the name “heirs” come the heirs of heirs without limit.

In Roman law. One, who succeeds to the rights and occupies the place of a deceased person, being appointed by the will of the decedent. It is to b^ observed that the Roman haeres h

An heir by one’s act or appointment.

An heir in possession.

An heir in fact.

ET FILIUS est pars patris. An heir is another self, and a son is a part of the father. HAERES EST AUT JURE PROPRIETAtis aut jure representationis. An heir is either by right of pro

An heir is the other self of a man and the son is a part of his father.

An heir is such either by right of property or by right of representation.

An heir is the same person with his ancestor.

HAEFtES EST NOMEN JURIS; FILIUS est nomen naturae. "Heir" Is a term of. law; "son," one of nature.

Heir is a collective term.

Heir is the legal name, son is the natural name.

The heir is a part of the ancestor. Co. Litt. 22b; 3 Hill (N. Y.) 165, 167. HAERES EX ASSE (Lat.) In civil law. An heir to the whole estate; a sole heir. Inst. 2. 23. 9. HAERES EXT

An heir is one whom marriage shows to be an heir.

A sole heir.

An heir who was neither a child nor a slave of the decedent.

An heir appointed by will.

A beneficiary heir; a testamentary cestui que trust.

A fiduciary heir or heir in trust; a person constituted heir by will, in trust for the benefit of another, called the "fideicommissa/rius." Inst. 2. 23. 1. 2. Corresponding nearly

The heir of my heir is my heir.

A testamentary heir; one appointed by the will of the decedent. —Hœres legitimus. A lawful heir; one pointed out as such by the marriage of his parents.

A lawful heir.

The lawful heir is the one whom the marriage shows to be such. See 82 Md. 17, 34 L. R. A. 773, 33 Atl. 317.

An heir under twenty-one years of age is not answerable, except in the matter of dower.

A born heir.

An heir who had no election but to accept.

The heir is not bound in England to pay his ancestor’s debts unless he was bound to this by the ancestor, excepting whatever is owed to the king.

A rightful heir.

A proper heir; an heir by descent.

To attach a hereditary character to a gift.

See "De Haeretico Comburendo." ^ HAFNE COURTS {hafne, Danish, a haven, or port). Haven courts; courts anciently held in certain ports in England. Spelman.

A haven or port Cowell. HAFNE COURTS (f Mfne, Dan. a haven, or port). Haven courts; courts anciently held in certain ports in England. Spelman, Gloss.

English port courts.

A house. Blount. A military inclosure. Spelman.

A contract in which the performance of that which is one of its objects depends on an uncertain event, Civil Code La. art, 1769. Seel J. J. Marsh, 596, HE. Tho use of this pronoun

or HAIA. A hedge or inclosure. Mon. Angl. tom. 2, p. 273.

A little hand-gun, Stat. 33 Hen.

A hand-gun larger than the hagne. Stat 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 14; 4 & 5 P. & M. c. 2. ’

The term "Hague Abduction Convention" means the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, done at The Hague October 25, 1980.

The Court of Arbitration established by the Hague Peace Conference of 1899. The object of the establishment was to facilitate the immediate recourse to arbitration for the settleme

A hedge.

In old English law. A permission or liberty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount.

In old English law. A permission or liberty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount.

In Scotch law. Whole; the whole. "All and haill" are common words in conveyances. 1 Bell, App. Cas. 499.

{@. ¢., holyworkfolk.) Those who, formerly held lands by the service of defending or repairing a church or monument. gear, and bring the same Home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.

Holywork. Those who formerly held lands by the service of defending or repairing a church or monument. Rapalje & L. See "Halywercfolk."

In old Scotch law. To seek restitution of one's own goods and gear, and bring the same home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.

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

In Scotch law. The crime of beating or assaulting a person in his own house. Bell, Diet.

A military coat of defense,

The holder of a right Moz. & W. See Hakh.

The realization of the revenue. Wilson, Gloss. Ind.; Moz. & W.

A noble, or six shillings and eight pence in iinglish money,

Same as Halmote.

The term “high-assay, low-enriched uranium” or “HALEU” means high-assay low-enriched uranium (as defined in section 16281(d) of this title ).

The term "HA–LEU" means high-assay low-enriched uranium.

A moiety; one of two equal parte of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec. 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co., 80 Mich. 491,

A term denoting the degree of relationship which exists between those who have one parent only in common. never inherit, upon the presumption that he is not of the blood of the ori

or HALF-SISTER. Persons who have the same father, but diiferent mothers; or the same mother, but different fathers.

Persons who have the same father, but different mothers; or the same mother, but different fathers. Wood v. Mitcham, 92 N. Y. 379; In re Weiss' Estate, 1 Montg. Co.. Law Rep'r (Pa.

Having the same father or mother. See 92 N. Y. 375.

A copper coin of the United States, of the value of one two-hundredth part of a dollar, or five mills, and of the weight of ninety -four grains. The first halfcents were issued in

See Defence.

In common-law pleading. A name applied to the abbreviated form of words with which a plea is introduced.

A silver coin of the United States, of the value of five cents, or the onetwentieth part of a dollar. It weighed nineteen grains and two-tenths of a grain, — equal to four-hundredt

A silver coin of the United States, of half the value of the dollar or unit, and containing one hundred and eighty-five grains and ten-sixteenth parts of a grain of pure, or two hu

A gold coin of the United States, of the value of five dollars. The weight of the piece is 129 grains (act June 28, 1834; Act Feb. 12, 1873) of standard fineness, namely, nine hund

A moiety, or half of a thing. Rapalje & L.

A gold eoin of the United States, of the value of five dollars.

In Saxon law. Half -king (semi-rex). A title given to the aldermen of all England. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 28; Spelman.

A noble; six shillings, eight pence.

Notes given as payment, half of each of which was given to the seller upon ordering the goods and the other half on delivery. See Ir. R. 10 C. L. 508.

half pilotage is compensation for services which the pilot has put himself in readiness to perform by labor, risk, and cost, and which he has actually offered to perform.

In the civil law. Proof by one witness, or a private instrument. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 3, c. 9, no. 25; 3 Bl. Comm. 370. Or prima facie proof, which yet was not sufficient to fou

In civil law. That which is insufficient as the foundation of a sentence or decree, although in itself entitled to some credit. Vicat, "Probatio."

A seal used in the English chancery for the sealing of commissions to delegates appointed upon any appeal, either in ecclesiastical or marine causes.

In American land law. The half of a section of land according to the divisions of the government survey, Inid off either by a north-and-south or by an east-and-west line, and contn