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Hit and Run

When a motorist involved in an accident flees the scene.

HOMESTEAD CORPORATION

This term applies to a corporation that buys a large plot of land and improves it for houses.

HAERIDITAS TESTAMENTARIA

This a Latin phrase to do with inheriting an estate as written in a will and testament of the person who has died.

HALF-TRUTH

a deceitful act where only part of the truth is told where all of the truth will lead to a different conclusion.

HYPNOSIS

the term given to the induced state of a person who is responsive to suggestion.

HYMEN

This term describes the piece of membrane that covers the entrance to the vagina that is found in virgins. See maidenhead.

HOUSE OF ASSIGNATION

the term used to describe a house of prostitution. Also known as a bawdy house, house of ill-repute.

HATCH ACT

A law that prohibits a person employed in an executive government position from engaging in campaigns to elect candidates for public office.

HOUSE COUNSEL

This term is given to an attorney who is employed exclusively by one corporation or company.

HONORABLE DISCHARGE

document that releases a person from serving in the armed services who conducted himself well.

HEIR CONVENTIONAL

This term applies to an heir who will inherit an estate resulting from an agreement with the decedent.

HOMICIDE EXCUSABLE

This term applies to a person who kills another person while defending himself.

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