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? Is it descriptive of a class of persons to whom in the alternative the right shall go, or is .it a'word which defines the nature of the estate which the grantee shall take? Is it

FORCED. Those who cannot be disinherited. See "Forced heirs."

IRREGULAR. In Louisiana. Those who are neither testamentary nor legal, and who have been established by law to take the succession. See Civ. Code La. art. 874. When the deceased ha

UNCONDITIONAL. In Louisiana. Those who inherit without any reservation, or without making an inventory, whether their acceptance be express or tacit. Civ. Code La. art. 878.

An expression used in the habendum clause of a deed to pass a fee simple. See 91 Mass. 159.

See Heir beneficiary .

Heirs at law. See Heir at law .

The status of an heir; his right to inherit.

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as the best of furniture, horses, cows,

Natural heirs. See 19 Conn. 107, 48 Am. Dec. 146.

“heirs of the first or second degree” means parents, children, grandchildren, grandparents, brothers and sisters of a decedent. 2

In English law. The Issue in tail, who claims per formam doni, by the form of the gift.

IN A BOND. In Scotch law. He to whom a bond is payable expressly in case of the creditor's decease, or after his death. 1 Forbes, Inst. pt. 3, p. 76.

(Scotch) The obligee of a bond payable on the death of a creditor.

One to whom land is devised.

In the civil law. One who inherits without any reservation, or without making an inventory, whether his acceptance be express or tacit Distinguished from heir beneficiary.

Same as Hegira.

In common understanding to hold property is to own it. In order to own or hold one must acquire. The date of acquisition is, then, that from which to compute the duration of owners

Congress intended to prevent transportation in interstate or foreign commerce of persons who were being unlawfully restrained in order that the captor might secure some benefit to

The language of § 301(k) does not limit its application to one holding title to the goods; the purpose of the legislation—to safeguard the consumer from the time the food is introd

the language used by Congress broadly and unqualifiedly prohibits misbranding articles held for sale after shipment in interstate commerce, without regard to how long after the shi

the terms “Helen Keller National Center for Youths and Adults who are Deaf-Blind” and “Center” mean the Helen Keller National Center for Youths and Adults who are Deaf-Blind, and i

I. In old English law. A making better; an improvement or betterment; a melioration.

The name given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the king's debtors were confined. Rich. Diet.

A tiller; the handle or wheel of a ship; a defensive covering for the head; a helmet; thatch or straw.

A felon of himself; a de or murderer of himself. One who iberately and intentionally puts an end to wn life, or who commits some unlawful wlicious act which results in his own

The end-wall covering and defending the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573.

(2) Inviergoigne—p. 4—to the Repronch—translated in condemnation. Fissend les viencs—13—make their views—make their Vianes. ! La Neece, le Ante le Heirc, lc Roy—W—the Niece being t

A Saxon brass coin, of the value of an English half-penny.

the term “Helsinki Commission” means the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe established under the Act entitled “An Act to establish a Commission on Security and Coope

The term “hemiplegia” means the complete and irreversible paralysis of the upper and lower limbs on one side of the body.

or HELMELBORCH. A title to possession. The admission of this old Norse term into the laws of the Conqueror is difficult to be accounted for; it is not found in any Anglo Saxon law

A title to possession. The admission of this old Norse term into the laws of the Conqueror is difficult to be accounted for; it is not found in any Anglo-Saxon law extant. Wharton.

The term “hemp” has the meaning given the term in section 1639 o of this title. / The term "hemp" means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including

The term “hen” or “laying hen” means a domesticated female chicken twenty weeks of age or over, raised primarily for the production of commercial eggs.

A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes, and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present time forward, but excludes al

A footman; one who holds himself at the bidding of another. It has come to mean here a political follower; used in a rather bad sense.

A letting of work to be done in the carrying of goods; a contract of bailment by which goods are delivered toa

A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas. Cowell.

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book. '

In Saxon law. A prison, or house of correction. Anc. Inst. Eng. HENGWYTE (Saxon). In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 17.

v. Hangwite. Heralds' college. An empowered to grant three kings at arms, gether with the Earl

Same as Hangwite.

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancient English chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman. HERALD ( from Fr

King of England, 1100-1135.

King of England, 1154-1189.

King of England, 1216-1272.

King of England, 1399-1413.

King of England, 1413-1422.

King of England, 1422-1461.

King of England, 1485-1509.

King of England, 1509-1547.

sax. In old English law. A surety.

or HUDEFAST. In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (folgarit,) who had no habitations of their own, but we

Peter-pence, (q. v.)

In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, viz., folgeras, (Jolgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were house-reta

Same as Herdwerck.

The master of a family; from the Saxon hearth faest, fixed to the house or hearth. Moz. & W.

In Saxon Law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

The name commonly given to an act of Congress, June 29, 1906, adding §§ 16a and 24 thereto. See IirrxBSXATx CoMMEBCE Commission.

The namb of the kingdom or government established by the Saxons In Britain: so called because It was composed of seven kingdoms, namely, Kent, Essex, Sussex, Wessex, East Anglia, M

femes covert as well as femes sole.

A messenger; an officer in charge of matters pertaining to heraldry.

The office of a herald; the art of tracing genealogy and inheritable titles and decorations.

A corporation chartered in the 15th century for the purpose of tracing and preserving records of heraldry.

In 1450, the heralds in England were collected into a college by Richard II. The earl marshal of England was chief of the college, and under him were three kings-at-arms (styled Ga

In English law. An easement which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another's ground.

Herbage.

A first crop.

or HARBINGER. An viticer in the royal house, who goes before and allots the noblemen and those of the household their lodgings; also an innkeeper.

An officer in the royal house, who goes before and allots the noblemen and those of the household their lodgings; also an innkeeper.

I I. In old English law. A lodging for guests.

Lodgings to receive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.

To harbor.

Spent in an inn. Cowell.

The privilege of having goods of a thief and trial of him within such a liberty. Cartular, S. Edmundl MS. 163; Cowell.

An inn. Herfeerjfare, to entertain at an inn. Herbergatus, entertained.

An inn. Cowell.

For purposes of this section, the term “herbicide agent” means a chemical in an herbicide used in support of the United States and allied military operations in the Republic of Vie

A harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 77.

To harrow. 4 Inst. 270.

In Old English Law. Harrowing; work with a harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 82, § 2.

erciscere, I. I. To divide or partition.

In Civil Law. To be divided. Familia herciscunda, an inheritance to be divided. Actio familke herciscundce, an action for dividing an inheritance. Eroiscunda is more commonly used

"herd" means one or more stallions and his mares; and 1

One who herds or has charge of a herd of cattle, in the senses above defined. See Hooker v. McAllister, 12 Wash. 46, 40 Pac. 617; Underwood v. Birdsell, ft Mont. 142, 9 Pac. 922; R

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. pt 3.

Customary uncertain services as herdsmen, shepherds, etc. Anno 11G8, Ilegist Eccles Ue Christi Cant MS.; Cowell.

Herdsmen's work, or customary labor, done by shepherds and inferior tenants, at the will of the lord. Cowell.

or HEORDWERCH. Customary uncertain services as herdsmen, shepherds, etc. A. D. 1166, Reg. Ecc. Christi Cant. MS.; Cowell.

Used as an adverb, it does not necessarily refer to unlimited time; it is not a synonym for “forever.” It rather Indicates the direction in time merely to which the context refers,

Calling out the army by proclamation; a fine paid by freemen for not attending the army; a tax for the support of the army. Du Cange.

The king’s edict commanding his subjects Into the field. Cowell.

In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.

In Spanish law. A portion of land that is cultivated. Formerly it meant a farm, hacienda de campo, real estate. HEREDAD YACENTE (Spanish, from Lat. "haereditas jacens," q. v.). In

(Spanish) Same as Haereditas jacens.

In Spanish law. Heir; he who, by legal or testamentary disposition, succeeds to the property of a deceased person. "Haeres censeatur cum defuncto una eademque persona." Las Partida

In Roman law. Necessary heirs; those who, being named heirs in the will, had no election whether to accept or decline the inheritance, the testator’s death, he at once became free,

In Sicilian and Neapoliten law. That which is held by hereditary right; the same with hereditamentum-(hereditament) in English law, Spelman.

Any property which may be inherited. See 46 Ind. 488, 15 Am. Rep. 295.