Law Dictionary

The term “housing entity” means the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

The term "housing expenses" means the reasonable expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year by or on behalf of an individual for housing for the individual (and, i

As used in this section, “housing for older persons” means housing— (A) provided under any State or Federal program that the Secretary determines is specifically designed and opera

For the purpose of this chapter, the term “housing loan” means a loan for any of the purposes specified by sections 3710(a) and 3712(a)(1) of this title.

As used in this section, the term “housing owner” means a private nonprofit corporation or other private nonprofit legal entity, a limited dividend corporation or other limited div

The term “housing plan” means a plan developed by the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

For purposes of this section, the term “housing program” means a program under the administration of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development or the Secretary of Agriculture

The term “housing-related activities” means advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities that result in individuals with developmental disabilities having access to

The term “housing related community development” means any facility, community building, business, activity, or infrastructure that— (i) is owned by an Indian tribe or a tribally d

The term “Housing Requirements and Market Analysis”or “HRMA” means, with respect to a military installation, a structured analytical process under which an assessment is made of bo

The term “housing stock” means the number of existing housing units based on data compiled by the United States Bureau of the Census and referable to the same point or period in ti

The term "housing unit" means a unit of family housing or military unaccompanied housing acquired or constructed under this subchapter.

The term “housing voucher program” means a program for tenant-based assistance under section 1437f of this title .

A place used by husbandmen to set their ploughs, carts, and other farming utensils out of the rain and sun. Law Lat. Diet. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.

The term “hovering vessel” means— (1) any vessel which is found or kept off the coast of the United States within or without the customs waters, if, from the history, conduct, char

The term “HOV facility” means a high occupancy vehicle facility.

A hill.

In Old English Law. A hill. Co. Litt. 5 ft.

A small sailboat usually employed in and about harbors for lightering.

The master or captain of a hoy, or small coasting vessel. Hoymen are liable as common carriers. Story, Bailm. § 496.

In Spanish law. A term synonymous with “equity” in one of its senses, and defined as “the benignant and prudent interpretation of the law according to the circumstances of the time

The office of overlooking or overseeing; the office of a bishop, who 6 is to overlook and oversee the concerns of the church. A form of church government by diocesan bishops. eee

The right of the mortgagor of an estate to redeem the same after it has been forfeited, at law, by a breach of the condition of the mortgage, upon paying the amount of debt, intere

A kind of rack for extorting confessions.

An abbreviation for house of representatives.

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

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

An ancient writ, directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of an heir, being in ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of his land. Reg. Ori

An ancient writ that lay for the ravishment of the lord's ward. Reg. Orig. 163.

Lat In the civil law. Heirs. The plural of hœres, (q. v.)

Lat. In old English law. A seeker of an inheritance; hence, the next heir to lands.

To the next heir, whether a relation or a stranger, certainly a dangerous guardian, let no one be committed. Co. Litt. 88b.

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

Co. Litt. 9. An inheritance is either corporeal or Incorporeal. Co.rporeal is that which can be touched and seen; incorporeal, that which can neither be touched nor seen.

Co.. Litt. 237. Inheritance is the succession to every right which the deceased had.

A vacant inheritance. So long as no one had acquired the inheritance, it was termed "hœreditas jacens;" and this, by a legal fiction, represented the person of the decedent. Mackel

The right of inheritance is nothing else than the faculty of succeeding to all the rights of the deceased. Dig. 50, 17, 62.

In Roman law. The heir or universal successor in the event of death. The heir is he who actively or passively succeeds to the entire property of the estate-leaver. He is not only t

An heir is another self, and a son is part of the father. 3 Coke, 12b.

An heir is either by right of property or right of representation. 3 Coke, 40b.

An heir is the same person with his ancestor. Co. Litt. 22; Branch, Princ. See Nov. 48, c. 1, § 1.

Heir is a collective name or noun. 1 Vent. 215.

Heir is a name or term of law; "son" is a name of nature. Bac. Max. 52, in reg. 11.

An heir is a part of the ancestor. So said because the ancestor, during his life, bears in his body (in judgment of law) all his heirs.

In the civil law. An heir made by will; a testamentary heir; the person created universal successor by will. Story, Confl. Laws, § 507; 3B]. Comm, 224. Otherwise called “heres ea t

A fiduciary heir, or heir in trust; a person constituted heir by will, in trust for the benefit of another, called the "fideicommissarius."

The heir of my heir is my heir.

He is a lawful heir whom marriage points out as such ; who is born in wedlock. Co. Litt. 7 b; Bract, fol. 88; Fleta, lib. 6, c. 1; Broom, Max. 515.

Moore, 348. An heir under twenty-one years of age is not answerable, except in the matter of dower.

Co. Litt. 386. In England, the heir is not bound to pay his ancestor's debts, uniess he be bound to it by the ancestor, except debts due to the king. But now, by 3 & 4 Win. IV. c.

In the civil law. A man's own heir; a decedent's proper or natural heir. This name was given to the lineal descendants of the deceased. Inst. 3, 1, 4 —5. —. Haeredes sui et necessa

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

The statute 2 Hen. IV. c. 15, de haeretico comburendo, was the first penal law enacted against heresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against all beretica who relapsed

His or her royal highness.

An agreement to do any act forbidden by the law, or to omit to do any act enjoined by the law. Billingsley v. Clelland, 41 W. Va. 243, 23 S. E. 816,

The term “Housing Requirements and Market Analysis”or “HRMA” means, with respect to a military installation, a structured analytical process under which an assessment is made of bo

The term “HSARPA” means the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency established in subsection (b).

Iieredes, I. Heirs, v. HcN'es. In the civil law. Hseredes extranei: strange or foreign heirs; heirs not subject to the power of the testator. Hseredes necessarii: necessary heirs;

I. In old English law. - An inheritance seeker; a person

I. I. In old English law. A hereditament.

/. A burdensome jacens (a prostrate inheritance): an cepted and entered upon by the heir. est quam successio in universum babuerit: an inheritance is nothing the rights the decease

An inheritance never ascends. Glanv. lib. 7, c. 1; 2 Bl. Comm. 211. A maxim of feudal origin, and which invariably prevailed in the law of England down to the passage of the statut

pi. haeredes, /. Heir. Haeres ment. Haeres astrarius: an heir in facto: an heir in fact; from the Haeres factud: an heir by will, a est alter ipse et filius est pars self and a son

I. L In old English make a donation hereditary

An abbreviation for hoc titulo, this title, under this title; used in references to books.

The term “HTS” means the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. / The term “HTS” means the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) (as in effect

A grant of land in feudal ages was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture: open and notorious delivery of possesion in the presence of other vassals. Made by putting a v

The term "Hub" means an Energy Innovation Hub established under this section. / The term "Hub" includes any Energy Innovation Hub in existence on September 28,

The terms "historically underutilized business zone" or "HUBZone" mean any area located within 1 or more— (A) qualified census tracts; (B) qualified nonmetropol

The term “HUBZone small business concern” means— (A) a small business concern that is at least 51 percent owned and controlled by United States citizens; (B) a small business conce

A peddler or hawker.

The business carried on by a huckster.

In old pleading. Hitherto. 2 Mod. 24.

The term “HUD-approved counseling agency” means a private or public nonprofit organization that is— (A) exempt from taxation under section 501(c) of title 26 ; and (B) certified by

In old English law. A compensation for an assault (transgressio illata) upon a trespassing servant {servus). Supposed to be a mistake or misprint in Fleta for hinegeld. Pleta, lib.

The term “HUD hold harmless impacted project” means any project with respect to which area median gross income was determined under subparagraph (B) for calendar year 2007 or 2008

The term “HUD hold harmless policy” means the regulations under which a policy similar to the rules of clause (i) applied to prevent a change in the method of determining area medi

In old English law. A pursuit of one who had committed felony, by the highway. The meaning of "hue" is said to be "shout," from the Saxon huer; but this word also means "to foot,"

In Spanish law. An acre of land, or as much as can be ploughed in a day by two oxen. 2 White, New Coll. 49.

In Spanish law. A measure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow in one day. 2 White, Recop. (38,) 49; Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet. 443, 9 Lu Ed. 1137.

“Hui Malama I Na Kupuna O Hawai'i Nei” means the nonprofit, Native Hawaiian organization incorporated under the laws of the State of Hawaii by that name on April 17, 1989, for the

Same as Huy.

Same as Huissier.

A ship used to transport horses. Also termed Tomlin. HUI88IER. An usher of the court An officer who serves process. In France, an officer of this name performs many of the duties o

An usher of the court; an officer who serves process. In France, an officer of this name performs many of the duties of an English sheriff or constable. In Canada, there may be man

In French law. Marshals; ushers; process-servers; sheriffs' officers. Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal service of process required by law in actions, to

A bulk, or small vessel. Cowell.

A hill.

A moist place. Mon. Angl.

A moist place.

In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States, the word

The term "human capital management system" means a system— (A) by which a local educational agency makes and implements human capital decisions, such as decisions on prep

The term "human data studies" means clinical trials of safety or effectiveness (including actual use studies), pharmacokinetics studies, or bioavailability studies.

The term “human drug application” means an application for— (A) approval of a new drug submitted under section 355(b) of this title , or (B) licensure of a biological product under

the active ingredient of a new drug, antibiotic drug, or human biological product (as those terms are used in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Public Health Service

The term “human environment” means the physical, social, and economic components, conditions, and factors which interactively determine the state, condition, and quality of living

For purposes of this section, the term “human fetal tissue” means tissue or cells obtained from a dead human embryo or fetus after a spontaneous or induced abortion, or after a sti

The term “human generic drug activities” means the following activities of the Secretary associated with generic drugs and inspection of facilities associated with generic drugs: (

As used in this subsection the term “human growth hormone” means somatrem, somatropin, or an analogue of either of them.

The term “human immunodeficiency virus” means the etiologic agent for AIDS.