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Category: H

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.

HUSBAND-WIFE PRIVILEGE

the principle where a husband and a wife can’t reveal any communications that passed between them to a third party.

HEIR APPARENT

This term is given to a person who mis certain to inherit the estate of a relative.

HOSPITAL RECORDS

These are the documents that relate to a patient while they have been in hospital.

HOME RULE

This term gives the right of self-government that is granted to a body within a states borders.

HARMONIZE EVIDENCE

The instruction given to a jury that urges it to weight all of the evidence to determine its validity.

HIDDEN TAX

a tax that is hidden from the person buying an item.

HUMILIATION

the term used when a person has been disgraced, belittled or made to look foolish.

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