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the term “half-staff” means the position of the flag when it is one-half the distance between the top and bottom of the staff;

The terms “half time” and “half-time” mean a minimum of 20 hours per week (not to exceed 39 hours per week) in a clinical practice, for a minimum of 45 weeks per year. / The terms

A child who, by the operation of the English factory and education acts, is employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he may attend some "recogni

A jury, half of one tongue or nationality, and half of another. Vide "De Medietate Linguae," Jacob.

A statement in a business transaction which, while stating the truth so far as it goes, the maker knows or believes to be materially misleading because of his failure to state qual

In the computation of time, a half-year is not the same as six months, but "'Half a year' containeth one hundred and eighty-two dayes; for the odde houres, in legall computation ar

“Halibut” means fish of the species Hippoglossus stenolepis inhabiting Convention waters.

A synonym for lynch law or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in Englan

In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, (conventus aulæ,) that ls, a lord's court; a court of a manor or court-baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen me

Halle gemote. of the cross-quarters of the year was computed from Halimass to Candlemass. Wharton.

In English Law. The feast of all-Salnts, on November 1. One of the cro^ quarters of the year was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Whart

Same as Hallowmass.

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

Holy work folk. Persons who held lands of which the tenure was the service of defending or repairing some church or monument. Cowell.

Peter. <A collection of Latin maxims and roles in law and equity, selected from the most eminent authors on the civil, canon, feudal, English, and Scots law, with an English transl

A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as, the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mans

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, ete. In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because t

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market, for such commodities as were vended in the commo

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.

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the first occupant. Las Partidas, 3. 5. 28; Id.

A court day.

Hall assembly. A species of court baron.

An official stamp affixed by the goldsmiths upon articles made of gold or silver as an evidence of genuineness, and hence used to signify any mark of genuineness. “The power of fre

See Nightwalkers; Wantonness.

All Saints’ day, November 1st.

In medical jurisprudence. A species of mania by which an idea reproduced by the memory is associated and embodied by the imagination. This state of mind is sometimes called "delusi

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

See "Halle Gemote."

That which was formerto the court of delegates, either in ecclesiastical or marine causes.

HOLIMOT, or HALEGE. mot (from Saxon, halg, holy, and gemot or mot, a meeting). A holy or ecclesiastical court. A court held in London before the lord mayor and sheriffs, for regula

Tenants by service of repairing a church.

Properly a house; 4 Inst. 294; a vill; a piece of ground shaped like the ham of the leg; Spelman. A piece of land; a home close, or little meadow; a narrow skirt, hem, or edge of m

A piece of land. In old English law. A hook; an engine with which a house on fire is pulled down. Yelv. 60.

(Law Lat.) In old European law. To summon to court; to go to law with; to sue or implead. Spelman.

(Law Lat.) In old European law. One who was summoned to court. Spelman.

To expeditate a dog; to hamstring an animal.

or HAMELING. Expeditation (q. V.).

A village.

Nocturnal housebreaking. See 4 Bl. Comm. 223.

In Scotch law. The crime of hamesucken consists in "the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house." 1 Hume, Hist. Eng. 312; Alis. Crim. Law, 199. The mere br

This term was formerly used in England instead of the modern term burglary; 4 Rla. Com. 223. See Hamsocken. But in Hale’s Pleas of the Crown it is said, “The common genus of offenc

An assault in a house.

A small village; a part or member of a vill.

A close joining to a house; a croft; a little meadow. Cowell. In Old English Law. The right of security and privacy in a man's house. Du Cange. The breach of this privilege by a fo

Used In connection with auction sales; as to bring or come to the hammer, to sell or be sold at auction. Cent Diet HAMSOCN (Saxon from ham, house, sockne, liberty. Immunity). The w

the District Court to order dismissal of the prosecutions.

In the civil law. A vacant inheritance. So long as no one had acquired the inheritance, if was termed “Aereditas jacens;” and this, by a legal fiction, represented the person of th

(Law Lat.) In Saxon law. Hamsoken, or hamsocne. The privilege or liberty of a man's own house; a breach of such privilege by a violent entry. LL. Edmund, c. 6. See Hamma. A fine fo

Same as Hamesecken.

Same as Hamesecken.

To disable an animal by cutting a hamstring.

A hamper or basket in which were kept the writs of the court of chancery relating to the business of a subject, and their returns. 5 & 6 Vict. c. 113; 10 Rich. II. c. 1. Equivalent

An office on the common law side of the Court of Chancery, in which the writs of private persons and returns, or the fees arising from them were kept, as those relating to the Crow

An office on the common-law side of the English court of chancery, in which the writs relating to the business of the subject, and the returns to them, were anciently kept. 3 Bl. C

An office belonging to the common-law jurisdiction of the court of chancery, so called because all write relating to the business of a subject, and their returns, were formerly kep

A measure of length, four Inches long; used in ascertaining the height of horses. HAND BOROW (from hand, and Saxon borow, a pledge.) Nine of a decennary or friborg were so called,

A written or printed notice displayed to inform those concerned of something to be done.

A pledge; a frank pledge.

Shackles for the wrists.

To announce or file an opinion in a cause. Used originally and properly of the opinions of appellate courts transmitted to the court below; but in later usage the term is employed

Betrothment

Protection at the hands of the king.

The term “handgun” means— (A) a firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand; and (B) any combination of parts from which a fire

In Saxon law. One having a thing in his hand; that is, a thief found having the stolen goods in his possession,— latro manifestus of the civil law. See Laws Hen. I. c. 59; Laws Ath

In Saxon Law. One having a thing in his hand; that is, a tliief found having the stolen goods in his possession,— latro manifestus of the civil law. See Laws of lien. I. c. 59; Law

“Handicap” means, with respect to a person— (1) a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person’s major life activities, (2) a record of havin

“handicapped” means having a temporary or permanent physical disability; and / the term “handicapped” means having an impairment which (A) is expected to be of long-continued and i

any individual who (A) has a physical or mental disability which for such individual constitutes or results in a substantial handicap to employment and (B) can reasonably be expect

The term &quot;handicapped person&quot; means any individual (A) who is an individual with a disability, as defined in section 705 of title 29, (B) who is under a disability as def

As used in this section, the term “handle” includes but is not limited to collecting, isolating, testing, opening, disposing, and destroying. / As used in this section, the term “h

cooperative associations.

The term “handling operation” means any operation or portion of an operation (except final retailers of agricultural products that do not process agricultural products) that— (A) r

Earnest (q. v.) when It is in cash.

or HANDSEL. Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was held necessary to bind a bargain,—a custom still retained in verbal contracts. A sale thus made was call

Same as Handsale.

Anything written by a person. The manner in which a person writes, including the formation of the characters, the separation of the words, and other features distinguishing the wri

One's voice and handwriting are, of course, means of communication. It by no means follows, however, that every compulsion of an accused to use his voice or write compels a communi

Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sheriff to take a view of lands or tenements.

In old practice. To remain undetermined. "It has hung long enough; it is time it were made an end of." Holt, C. J., 1 Show. 77. Thus, the present participle means pending; during t

Death by the halter, or the suspending of a criminal, condemned to suffer death, by the neck, until life Is extinct A mode of capital punishment. In Old English Law. Pending; as ha

Overdue rent.

In atrocious cases it was at one time usual, in England, for the court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder w

An executioner. The name usually given to a man employed by the sheriff to put a man to death, according to law, in pursuance of a judgment of a competent court and lawful warrant.

A fine for hanging one without trying him; a fine for permitting an escape.

A commercial confederacy for the good ordering and protection of the commerce of its members; an imposition upon merchandise. Du Cange, "Hansa."

Pertaining to the hanse tovsms.

A number of towns in Europe which Joined in a league for mutual protection of commerce as early as the twelfth century. Associated action and partial union between certain North Ge

A commercial association of German cities, formerly existing, chief among which were Bremen, Lubee, and Hamburg, having a peculiar code of maritime laws. Harlot^ V. Heriot.

A number of towns in Europe which joined in a league for mutual protection of commerce as early as the twelfth century. Amsterdam and Bremen were the first two that formed it, and

LAWS OF THE. The maritime ordinances of the Hanseatic towns, first published in German at Lubeek in 1597, and in May, 1614, revised and enlarged. The text of this digest, and a Lat

The maritime ordinances of the Hanseatic towns, first published in German at Lubeck, in 1597, and in May, 1614, revised and enlarged.

The chief of a company; the head man of a corporation.

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

An arrest. Jacob.

An arrest.

Respect or distinction of persons. Jacob.

To catch. Thus, "hap the rent," "hap the deed-poll," were formerly used. Tech. Diet.; Cowell.

The word happen, in its strictest literal sense, signifies an unexpected event. It is also not uncommonly used as synonymous with "'occur," "take place," "exist" and "happens to be

The “pursuit of happiness,” as used in the Declaration of Independence is said to be the right to pursue any iawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the eq

In old statutes. A hand-gun, about three-quarters of a yard long.