Category: H

A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used In conveying passengersand goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

In English law. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, ancientlythe suitors or judges of the hundred court. Persons impaneled or fit to be impaneledupon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within abuilding, at a time when other courts were held iu the opeu air. It was a local court.The county court iu the

To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to thepledgee. “The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, mayhypothecate the ship, freight, and cargo, to raise money

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

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

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

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.

Handsale, or earnest money.

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

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

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.

A small haven, wharf, or landing place.

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

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

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

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

Household goods; implements of trade or husbandry; the rigging or tackle of a ship. Cowell.

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

In old English law. A husbandry servant.