Law Dictionary

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

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