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HOOKE’S LAW

The elastic limit on a solid material. The strain is measured to show how much a material can take and have the same shape. When the limit is passed it is the

HORIZONTAL PRICE RESTRAINT

When competitors and distribtors on the same level change prices to control supply. It causes a nonpricing horizontal restraint.

HABETO TIB I RES TUAS

Lat Have or take your effects to yourself. One of the oldRoman forms of divorcing a wife. Calvin.

HADGONEL

In old English law. A tax or mulct. Jacob.

HAGNE

A little hand-gun. St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6.

HALYWERCFOLK

Sax. In old English law. Tenants who held land by the service ofrepairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted fromfeudal and military services.

HARDHEIDIS

In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three halfpence.1 I’itc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.

HAUTHONER

In old English law. A man armed with a coat of mail. Jacob.

HEALSFANG

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit wascaught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell.

HEDA

A small haven, wharf, or landing place.

HELOWE-WALL

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

HERBAGIUM ANTERIUS

The first crop of grass or hay, in opposition to aftermath orsecoud cutting. Paroch. Antiq. 450.

HEREDERO

In Spanish law. Heir; he who, by legal or testamentary disposition,succeeds to the property of a deceased person. “Hccrcs ccnscatur cum dcfuncto unaeadcmque persona.’” Las Partidas, 7, 9, 13 ; See Emeric

HERGE

In Saxon law. Offenders who joined in a body of more than thirty-five tocommit depredations.

HIDALGUIA

In Spanish law. Nobility by descent or lineage. White, New Recop. b. 1,tit. 5, c. 3,

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