Law Dictionary

The term “habitat” means those portions of the land or water, including the constituent elements thereof, (A) which salmon or steelhead occupy at any time during their life cycle,

The term “habitat conservation plan” means the conservation plan entitled “Washington County Habitat Conservation Plan” and dated February 23, 1996.

The term “habitat enhancement” means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a habitat to change a specific function or seral stage of the habi

The term “habitat establishment” means the manipulation of physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a project site to create and maintain habitat that did not previousl

The term “habitat improvement” means restoring, enhancing, or establishing physiographic, hydrological, or disturbance conditions necessary to establish or maintain native plant an

A habitation or dwelling. Towns. PI. 116. In Civil Law. The right of dwelling; the right of free residence in another's house. Inst. 2. 5; Dig. 7. 8,

In Civil Law. The right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. It diflfered from a usufruct In this, that the usufructuary might apply the h

The term “habitat restoration” means the manipulation of the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of a site with the goal of returning the majority of natural function

The term “habit-forming narcotic drug” or “narcotic” means opium and coca leaves and the several alkaloids derived therefrom, the best known of these alkaloids being morphia, heroi

The unmistakable purpose of the six-year provision was to prevent the creation of a class of habitual bankrupts—debtors who might repeatedly escape their obligations as frequently

A name given to various statutes for the more severe punishment of repeated offenses. In England it was applied to St. 32 & 33 Vict. c. 99, giving power to apprehend, on suspicion,

By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony, having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice se convicted) or who is convicted of a misdemeanor and has p

Even though an habitual criminal charge does not state a separate offense, the determination of whether one is an habitual criminal is 'essentially independent' of the determinatio

The stat. 32 & 33 Viet c. 99. Its object was to give the police greater control over convicted criminals at large, and to provide for the registration of criminals. Now repealed an

The sentence as a fourth offender or habitual criminal is not to be viewed as either a new jeopardy or additional penalty for the earlier crimes. It is a stiffened penalty for the

A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of intoxicating drink, who has lost the power or the will, by frequent indulgence, to control his appetite for it. 5 Gray (Mass.) 85.

The basis of the jurisdiction is the habitual employment of the property within the state.

A fixed habit of drinking to excess, to such a degree as to disqualify one during the principal portion of the time usually devoted to business. See 19 Cal. 626, 81 Am. Dec. 91, an

Customarily; by frequent practice or use. It does not mean entirely or exclusively; Stanton v. French, 91 Cal. 274, 27 Pac. 657, 25 Am. St. Rep. 174.

The fundamental mistake of the plaintiff in error is his assumption that the judgment below imposes an additional punishment on crimes for which he had already been convicted and p

the repetition of criminal conduct aggravates their guilt and justifies heavier penalties when they are again convicted.

Appearance; apparel.

(Law Fr.) Able;.competent. Dyer, 70b (Pr. ed.). In old English law. A port or harbor; a station for ships. Stat. 27 Hen. VI. c. 3.

(Law Lat.) In old records. Abundance; plenty. Paroch. Ant. 548. Cowell.

(Sax. hseca, a hatch, or bolt). A hatch; a gate or door. Cowell. ■

In Romanlaw. An exception. In a general sense, a judicial alle gation opposed by a defendant to the pisintiff's action. Calvin. A stop or stay to an action opposed by the defendant

L. Lat. This is the final agreement. The words with which the foot of a fine commenced. 2 Bl. Comm. 351.

(Law Lat.) li old records. A hack; a pick, or instrument for digging. Placita, 2 Edw. III. MS. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A generic term, applicable to the mass of the property belonging to a state, and the administration of the same. da," to be that part of civil economy which teaches

Carriages plying for hire in the street. The driver is liable for negligently losing baggage; 2 C. 13, 877; Masterson v. Short, 33 How. Pr. (N. Y.) 481. They are usually regulated

In the civil law. An heir to the whole estate; a sole heir. Inst. 2, 23, 9. —Hœres extranens. In the civil law. A strange or foreign heir; one who was not subject to the power of t

In French law. A recompense or amends made for violence offered to a person in holy orders.

A boundary or limit. A statutory punishment defined by law, and not arbitrary. In Hindu law. Moz. & W.

(Law Lat. hada.) In old records. A piece of land; a head of land, or headland, dowell. See Butts, Caput terras, Caputia, Headlands; Fitzherb, Husb. § 6.

Hatred; ill will; prejudice or partiality. Spelman; Cowell.

A tax or mulct. Jacob. HAEC EST CONVENTIO (Law Lat. this is an agreement). Words with which agreements anciently commenced. Y. B. H, 6 Edw. II. 191. HAEC EST FINALIS CONCORDIA (Law

This is the agreement.

This is the final agreement.

These words.

In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court leet. 4 Bl, Comm. 274.

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.