Law Dictionary

In old English law. A race of horses and mares kept for breed; a stud. Spelman.

The term “harassment” means any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance which— (i) has the potential to injure a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild; or (ii) has the pot

In England, an officer of the royal household.

The term “harbor” means any channel or harbor, or element thereof, in the United States, capable of being utilized in the transportation of commercial cargo in domestic or foreign

n. A haven, or aspace of deep water so sheltered by the adjacent land as to ufford a safe anchorage for ships. “Port” is a word of larger import than “harbor, ” since it implies th

In England, a harbor authority is a body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, or intrusted with the duty of construct-

The term "harbor maintenance tax" means the amounts collected under section 4461 of title 26. / The term “harbor maintenance tax” has the meaning given the term in sectio

The term “Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund” means the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund established by section 9505 of title 26 .

A shelter or safe station for vessels; a haven or port

the general definition of the word harbour... is such as to be fully covered by the facts in this case... It is,—'to receive clandestinely, and without lawful authority, a person f

structures erected along the seacoast at inlets or rivers for protective purposes, or for enclosing sea areas adjacent to the coast to provide anchorage and shelter.

A phrase used to indicate decisions which, to meet a case of hardship to a party, are not entirely consonant with the true principle of the law. It is said of such: Hard cases make

For purposes of subsection (b)(6), the term “hard cider” means a wine— (1) containing not more than 0.64 gram of carbon dioxide per hundred milliliters of wine, except that the Sec

or HARDIES (Scotch). In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three half -pence. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.

A phrase used in sentencing to confinement in institutions where labor is required of convicts. The word "hard" is surplusage. 29 Pa. St. 448.

“hard-metric” means measurement, design, and manufacture using the metric system of measurement, but does not include measurement, design, and manufacture using English system meas

“hard mineral resource” means any deposit or accretion on, or just below, the surface of the deep seabed of nodules which include one or more minerals, at least one of which contai

Coin. See 5 Hill (N. Y.), 523.

people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage-when, for example, a religious college provides married student *2626

The term “hard seeds” means the percentage of seeds which because of hardness or impermeability do not absorb moisture or germinate under prescribed tests but remain hard during th

at a minimum, "something hard to bear" and suggests something more severe than a mere burden.

A rural cooperative plan which includes a qualified cash or deferred arrangement shall not be treated as violating the requirements of section 401(a) or of paragraph (2) merely by

The term “hardware” means a locomotive apparatus, a wayside interface unit (including any associated legacy signal system replacements), switch position monitors needed for a posit

The term “hardwood plywood” means a hardwood or decorative panel that is— (i) intended for interior use; and (ii) composed of (as determined under the standard numbered ANSI/HPVA H

The term "hard x-ray" means a photon with energy greater than 20 kiloelectron volts.

Lat. In old English law. A seeker of an inheritance; hence, the next heir to lands. Heredipetae suo propinquo vel extraneo periculoso sane custodi nullus committatur. To the next h

A fiduciary heir, or heir in trust; a person constituted heir by will, in trust for the benefit of another, called the “/fideicommissarius.” Heeres heeredis mei est meus heres. The

A lawful heir; one pointed out as such by the marriage of his parents. Heres legitimus est quem nuptie demonstrant. He isa lawful heir whom marriage points out as such; who is born

In the civil law. An heir born; one born heir, as distinguished from one made heir, (heres factus, q. v.;) an heir at law, or by intestacy, (@b intestato;) the next of kin by bloud

Inold English law. Ariglhtheir. Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1, § 11.

In old English law. To give aright of inheritance, or make the donation hereditary to the grantee and his heirs. Cowell.

The same as herlot (q. «.). Cowell; Termes de la Ley. Sometimes spelled Harriott; Wms. Sels. 203.

A whore.

such indirect means of killing and injuring wildlife as habitat modification, the other terms listed in §3 — "harass," "pursue," "hunt," "shoot," "wound," "kill," "trap," "capture,

The term "harmful algal bloom" means marine and freshwater phytoplankton that proliferate to high concentrations, resulting in nuisance conditions or harmful impacts on m

the term “harmful interference” means— (A) flying or landing helicopters or other aircraft in a manner that disturbs concentrations of birds or seals; (B) using vehicles or vessels

“discharge”, “emission”, “garbage”, “harmful substance”, and “incident” shall have the meanings provided in the Convention;

that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it (a) predominately appeals to th

that quality of any description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it

Congress may have intended 'harmless' in a relative sense, but we think it was in relation to such laboratory tests as the ones the Secretary performed that Congress was speaking w

A judgment is not to be reversed for an error by which the plaintiff in error cannot have been prejudiced.

even though there may have been sufficient evidence, apart from the coerced confession, to support a judgment of conviction, the admission in evidence, over objection, of the coerc

Though not strictly synonymous with the word “reconcile,” it is not improi>erly u.sed by a court in instructing the jury that it is their duty to “harmonize” conflicting evidence i

Armor.

The defensive armor of a soldier or knight. All warlike instruments. Hovend. 725. In modern poetical sense a suit of armor. The term is sometimes used to denote the trappings of a

or HARROU (Fr.) In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cowell.

Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cowell.

The old form of "heriot," (q. v.) Williams, Seis. 203.

Hue and cry.

A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete.

A name commonly applied to the act of congress of February 13, 1893. It provides (§ 1) that agreements in a bill of lading relieving the owner, etc., of a vessel sailing between th

the provisions of the Harter Act relieving an owner from liability to the cargo for errors of management of navigation do not charge him with a warranty. What they say to him is th

A penny tax on every house. -<i. Peter's pence.

hearth penny. In old English law. A tax or tribute of a penny, imposed on every hearth or house.

The term “harvest” means to engage in harvesting or other associated activities.

“harvester” means any individual who is in the business of catching or growing fish for purposes of sale;

The terms “harvesting” and “harvesting or other associated activities” mean— (A) the harassing, molesting, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, or cap

The terms “harvesting” and “harvesting or other associated activities” mean— (A) the harassing, molesting, harming, pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, or cap

2 The term “harvest rate” means the amount of ice (at 32 degrees F) in pounds produced per 24 hours.

to me that the board has proceeded conformably to the statute and regulations.

In Old English Law. The hasp of a door; by which the livery of seisin might anciently be made, where there was a house on the premises. In Old Records. The hasp or clasp of a book.

In old Scotch law. The form of entering an heir in a subject situated within a royal borough. It consisted of the heir's taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door (which was t

Lat. Im the civil law. Heirs. The plural of heres, (q. v.)

In Roman law. The hereditas was a universal succession by law to any deceased person, whether such person bad died testate or intestate, and whether in trust (ex fideicommisso) for

The term “Hass avocado” includes— (i) the fruit of any Hass variety avocado tree; and (ii) any other type of avocado fruit that the Board, with the approval of the Secretary, deter

Lat. A spear. In the Roman law, a spear was the sign of a public sale of goods or sale by auction. Hence the phrase "hastæ subjicere" (to put under the spear) meant to put up at au

The term “hatchery operator” means any person engaged in the production of egg-type baby chicks.

The term “hatching eggs” means eggs intended for use by hatcheries for the production of baby chicks.

The term “hate crime” means a crime as described in section 1(b) of the Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990. / the term &quot;hate crime&quot; has the meaning given that term in sect

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

In maritime law. Primage; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship.

A great baron or lord. Spel. Gloss.

A coat of mail.

Same as Hauberk.

hangrith, sax. In Saxon and old English law. Peace or protection given by the king with his own hand.

Low lands sometimes overflowed by a river.

A green plot in a valley.

In an indictment for larceny this word is a sufficient substitute for carry, in the statutory phrase steal, take and carry away, being in the sense used equivalent to it. Spittorff

A hall; a court.

In old English law. Hatred. LL. Gul, Conq, c. 16.. HAUSTUS (Lat. from haurire, to draw). In civil law. The right of drawing water, and the right of way to the place of drawing. Fle

A drawing as of water.

High.

High wood.

A highway.

A high street.

A man armed with a coat of mail. Jac. L. Diet.

To be entitled to; to be possessed of.

To possess corporally. “No one, at common law, was said to keve or to be in possession of land, unless it were conyeyed to him by the livery of seisin, which gave him the corporal

A common phrase in conveyancing', derived from the habendum et tenendum of the old common law. See "Habendum."

A place calculated for the reception of ships, and so situated, in regard to the surrounding land, that the vessel may ride at anchor in it in safety. Hale de Port. Mar. c. 2; 2 Ch

A small parcel of land so called in Kent; houses. Co. Litt 5.

A territory of the United States. It consists of a group of islands In the Pacific Ocean about one thousand five hundred miles from the western coast of California. A republic was

any descendant of the aboriginal peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands which exercised sovereignty and subsisted in the Hawaiian Islands in 1778, and which peoples thereafter hav

The term “Hawaiian home lands” means all lands given the status of Hawaiian home lands under section 204 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920 (42 Stat. 110), or under the c

A coat or shirt of mail; hence, derivatively (in feudal law) one who held a fief on the duty or service of providing himself with such armor and standing ready, thus equipped, for

In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 5b.

An itinerant or traveling trader, who carries small commodities about on his back or in a cart or wagon in order to sell them, and who actually sells them to purchasers, 132 III. 3

The business of one who sells or offers goods for sale on the streets, by outcry, or by attracting the attention of persons by exposing his goods in a public place, or by placards,

An alliance or confederation among merchants or cities, for the good ordering and protection of the commerce of its members. Animposition upon merchandise. Du Cange.

In old English law. A hedge. Cowell. A piece of ground enclosed with a hedge; an enclosure in forests and parks. Blount. HAYBOTE (from haye, hedge, and bote, compensation). Hedgebo