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A tax on each hide of land.

In old English law. A piace of protection; 2 sanctuary. St. 1 Hen. VII. ce, 5, 6; Cowell.

In old English law. A place of protection; a sanctuary. St. 1 Hen. VII. cc. 5, 6; Cowell.

In old English law. Lands appertaining to a hide, or mansion. See "Hide."

A sum of money paid by a villein or servant to save himself from a whipping. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 20.

those organized as a body with other churches having similar faith and doctrine with a common ruling convocation or ecclesiastical head.

Originally, government by a body of priests. Stubbs, Const. Hist. § 376. Now, the body of officers in any church or ecclesiastical institution, considered as forming an ascending s

I. To adhere; to be close to; to stop; to hesitate; to stick; to be in doubt v. Qui hceret, etc.

This term, as used in various compound legal phrases, is sometimes merely an addition of dignity, not importing a comparison ; but more generally it means exalted, either in rank o

The Administrator shall promptly establish at least one testing center (in addition to the testing centers existing on November 15, 1990) located at a site that represents high alt

See Watermark.

The term "high-assay low-enriched uranium" means uranium having an assay greater than 5.0 weight percent and less than 20.0 weight percent of the uranium-235 isotope. / T

An officer attached to an English county court. His duties are to attend the court when sitting, to servo summonses, and to execute orders, warrants, writs, etc. St. 9 & 10 Vict. c

One of a Chinese society organized for blackmailing, murder, or both.

The terms "high causal evidence rating" and "moderate causal evidence rating" shall have the meaning given such terms by the Secretary of Labor.

who in theory exercises as reside in the Crown; v. Court, 19. were invoked as a favor of the King, but tallized into the system of Equity. The was the highest court of equity, and

See Court of High Commission.

In English law. An ecclesiastical court of very extensive jurisdiction, for the vindication of the peace and dignity of the church, by reforming, ordering, and correcting the eccle

See Court of Admiralty.

See Court of Delegates.

High consequence area defined.—For purposes of this subsection, the term "high consequence area" has the meaning given that term in section 195.450 of title 49, Code of F

The term "high-consequence plant transboundary disease" means a transboundary disease that is— (A) (i) a plant disease; or (ii) a plant pest; and (B) of high consequence,

The term “high-consequence target” means a property, natural resource, location, area, or other target designated by the Secretary that is a viable terrorist target of national sig

An officer appointed in some cities with powers generally limited to matters of police, and not more extensive, in these respects, than those of constables. See "Constable."

Lord. His office has been disused (except only upon great and solemn occasions, as the coronation, or the like) since the attainder of Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, in the reign of

An office of great and numerous powers and functions, abolished by Henry VIII.

The term "high-cost area" means an unserved area in which the cost of building out broadband service is higher, as compared with the average cost of building out broadban

For the purposes of this section, the term "high-cost contract care cases" means those cases in which the cost of the medical treatment provided to an individual—

the term "high-cost programs" means— (i) the program for Universal Service Support for High-Cost Areas set forth under subpart D of part 54 of title 47, Code of Federal R

The term "high-cost region" means a region in which the average cost of electrical power or heat exceeds 150 percent of the national average retail cost, as determined by

See "Admiralty."

In English law. A tribunal which formerly exercised appellate jurisdiction over cases brought from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts. It was a court of great dignity, erected

The court of last resort in the state of Mississippi.

See Court of Errors and Appeals.

That branch of the English supreme court of judicature (q. v.) which exercises (1) the original jurisdiction formerly exercised by the court of chancery, the courts of queen's benc

with five divisions, and a Court of

See "Court of Justiciary." composed of the house of peers and house of commons. The house of lords sitting in its judicial capacity. This term is applied to parliament by most of t

The English lienses of parliament; either of them; either of them in the exercise of judicial or quasijudicial functions.

High crimes and misdemeanors are such immoral and unlawful acts as are nearly allied and equal in guilt to felony, yet, owing to some technical circumstance, do not fall within the

A term used in Const. U. S. art. 2, § 4, and elsewhere, as a ground of impeachment. Its technical sense is parliamentary, and it includes many acts not constituting crimes. Cooley,

The term “high deductible health plan” means a health plan— (i) in the case of self-only coverage, which has an annual deductible which is not less than $1,500 and not more than $2

The term “high definition television” refers to systems that offer approximately twice the vertical and horizontal resolution of receivers generally available on February 8, 1996,

In this section, the term “high-demand, low-density military capability” means a combat, combat support or service support capability, unit, system, or occupational specialty that

High density airport.—The term “high density airport” means an airport at which the Administrator limits the number of instrument flight rule takeoffs and landings of aircraft.

The same as great diligence

The term "high-efficiency electric home rebate program" means a rebate program carried out by a State energy office or Indian Tribe pursuant to subsection (c) using a gra

"high-end computing" means the most advanced and capable computing systems, including their hardware, storage, networking and software, encompassing both massive computat

The term “high-end computing system” means a computing system with performance that substantially exceeds that of systems that are commonly available for advanced scientific and en

The term "high-enriched uranium" means uranium with an assay of 20.0 weight percent or more of the uranium-235 isotope.

In the practice of the English supreme court of judicature, there are two scales regulating the fees of the court and the fees which solicitors are entitled to charge. The lower sc

For purposes of this section, the term “higher-risk mortgage” means a residential mortgage loan, other than a reverse mortgage loan that is a qualified mortgage, as defined in sect

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “higher wage index area” means, with respect to a county, an area with a wage index that exceeds that of the county.

The term “higher yielding investments” means any investment property which produces a yield over the term of the issue which is materially higher than the yield on the issue.

The highest and most profitable use for which the property is adaptable and needed or likely to be needed in the reasonably near future is to be considered, not necessarily as the

contracts, he who, at an auction, offers the The highest bidder is entitled to have the article sold at his bid, provided there has been no unfairness on his part. A distinction ha

the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

this court has jurisdiction, upon writ of error, to re-examine the final judgment of a subordinate state court denying a Federal right, specially set up or claimed, if, under the l

The term “highest home energy needs” means the home energy requirements of a household determined by taking into account both the energy burden of such household and the unique sit

In this section, the term “highest permanent grade” means a grade at or below the grade of major general in the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, or rear admiral in th

one of two things: (1) It means the top price for which an article was delivered during March 1942, in completion of a sale to a purchaser of the same class; (2) If there was no ac

The term “highest rate” means— (I) the highest rate of tax specified in section 11, or (II) if at all times during the year involved more than 50 percent of the interests in the en

The term “high exposure level” means a level of exposure to a substance of concern that is for such a duration, or of such a magnitude, that adverse effects on human health can be

The term "high hazard potential dam" means a dam assigned to the significant or high hazard potential classification under the guidelines published by the Federal Emergen

For purposes of this paragraph, the term “high housing cost area” means any statistical area for which the housing cost/income ratio is greater than 1.2.

The term “high impact service provider” means an agency program identified by the Director due to the scale and impact of the public-facing services of the program.

The term “high intensity discharge lamp” means an electric-discharge lamp in which— (i) the light-producing arc is stabilized by the arc tube wall temperature; and (ii) the arc tub

For purposes of this subsection, the term “high intensity motorbus” means public transportation that is provided on a facility with access for other high-occupancy vehicles.

The terms “high interest training issue”, “high interest training requirement”, “Tier 1”, and “Tier 2” have the meanings given such terms in the Joint Training Manual for the Armed

The terms “high interest training issue”, “high interest training requirement”, “Tier 1”, and “Tier 2” have the meanings given such terms in the Joint Training Manual for the Armed

In old French and Canadian law. A feudal lord who exercised the right called "high justice." Guyot, Inst. Feod. c. 26.

In feudal law. The jurisdiction or right of trying crimes of every kind, even the highest. This was a privilege claimed and exercised by 'the great lords or barons of the middle ag

In old French and Canadian law. A feudal lord who exercised the right called "high justice." Guyot, Inst. Feud. c. 26.

the term “high-level radioactive waste” has the meaning given to that term in section 2(12) of the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 ( 42 U.S.C. 10101(12) ); / “High-level radioacti

A system for the regulation and restriction of the traffic in intoxicating liquors, of which the distinguishing feature is the grant of licenses only to carefully selected persons

In the case of a governmental plan (as defined in section 414(d)) or a multiemployer plan (as defined in section 414(f)), subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) shall not apply. Subpara

Paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to any qualified tuition reduction provided with respect to any highly compensated employee only if such reduction is available on substantia

For purposes of this subsection, the term “highly compensated employee percentage” means the percentage which highly compensated employees performing services for the line of busin

For purposes of this subsection, the term “highly compensated individual” means an individual who is— (A) one of the 5 highest paid officers, (B) a shareholder who owns (with the a

The term “highly compensated participant” means a participant who is— (A) an officer, (B) a shareholder owning more than 5 percent of the voting power or value of all classes of st

the term “highly enriched uranium” means uranium enriched to 20 percent or more in the isotope U–235; / The term “highly enriched uranium” means uranium enriched to include concent

The term “highly enriched uranium of weapons origin” means highly enriched uranium that— (A) contains 90 percent or more uranium-235; and (B) is verified by the Secretary of Energy

The term “highly erodible cropland” means highly erodible land that is in cropland use, as determined by the Secretary. / The term "highly erodible cropland" means any hi

The terms “highly erodible land” and “wetland” have the meanings, respectively, that such terms are given in section 3801 of title 16 . / The term “highly erodible land” means land

The term "highly fluorinated compound" means a perfluoroalkyl substance or a polyfluoroalkyl substance with at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.

As used in this section, the term “highly indebted country” means any country designated as a “Highly Indebted Country” in the annual World Debt Tables most recently published by t

The term “highly migratory fish stocks” means all fish stocks of the species listed in Annex 1 of the 1982 Convention, except sauries, occurring in the Convention Area,1 and such o

The term “highly migratory species” means tuna species, marlin (Tetrapturus spp. and Makaira spp.), oceanic sharks, sailfishes (Istiophorus spp.), and swordfish (Xiphias gladius).

The term “highly qualified” has the meaning given such term in section 9101 1 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 7801 ) and, with respect to special

“highly restricted personal information” means an individual's photograph or image, social security number, medical or disability information; and

In this paragraph, the term "highly rural area" means an area located in a county that has fewer than seven individuals residing in that county per square mile.

The term “highly sensitive program” means— (A) a government program designated as a Special Access Program (as that term is defined in section 4.1(h) of Executive Order 12958 or an

The term “highly toxic” means any substance which falls within any of the following categories: (a) Produces death within fourteen days in half or more than half of a group of ten

For purposes of section 335a of this title , the term “high managerial agent”— (1) means— (A) an officer or director of a corporation or an association, (B) a partner of a partners

For purposes of this clause, the term “high migration rural county” means any county which, during the 20-year period ending with the year in which the most recent census was condu

See Mis- PRISION; High Crimes.

The term “high need cure” means a drug (as that term is defined by section 321(g)(1) of title 21 ,1 biological product (as that term is defined by section 262(i) 2 of this title),

The term “high-need early childhood education program” means an early childhood education program serving children from low-income families that is located within the geographic ar

The term “high-need local educational agency” means a local educational agency— (A) (i) for which not less than 20 percent of the children served by the agency are children from lo

In this section, the term “high-need public secondary school” means a secondary school— (1) in which 40 percent or more of the students attending the school are children from low-i

The term “high-need school” means— (A) an elementary or middle school in which at least 50 percent of the enrolled students are children from low-income families, based on the numb