Category: H

The occupier of a house. Brande. More correctly, one who keepshouse with his family; the head or master of a family. Webster; 18 Johns. 302. Onewho has a household ; the head

A denomination of weight containing, according to the Englishsystem, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois.

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein Domesday Book.

In Scotland, the terra “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s rightwhich, independently of any stipulation, he has over the crop and stocking of histenant. It gives a security to the landlord

Riches. Mon. Angl. t 1, 100.

In Spanish law. The public domain; the royal estate; the aggregatewealth of the state. The science of administering the national wealth; public economy.Also au estate or farm belonging to a private person.

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

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something whichpreviously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the first occupant.Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49; 5,

In old English law. Betrothment

In old English law. A race of horses aud mares kept for breed; a stud. Spelman.

The use of this word, instead of the statutory word “carry,” in an indictmentcharging that the defendant “did feloniously steal, take, and haul away” certainpersonalty, will not render the indictment bad, the

In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough ; chief of thefrankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty constablesliipwas created, united with that office.

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection withothers,) where it Is intended to pass a fee.

In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. lit. 3.

A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst. 128.

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By thephrase “legal hermeneutics” is understood the systematic body of rules which arerecognized as applicable to the construction and interpretation of legal writings.

A hay-net; a net forcatching conies. Cowell.

In English law. A term of court, begining on the 11th and ending onthe 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which beginJanuary 11th, and end on the