Category: H

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases.

A little loaf of bread.

In English law. A hawker or peddler. A person who carries from door todoor, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like.

In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt. 4&.

In old English law. Light horsemen or bowmen; also certain tenants,bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion, orsuch like peril, towards the seaside.

An island In a river or the sea. Spelman.Plain grassy ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground intersectedwith streams. Spelman.

A writ to take him that had taken any bondman or woman, and led him or lier out of the country, so that he or she could not bereplevied according to law.

In the civil law. An honorary or free gift; a gratuitous payment, asdistinguished from hire or compensation for service; a lawyer’s or counsellor’s fee. Dig.50, 13, 1, 10-12.An honorarium is a voluntary

In old Scotch practice. A kind of trumpet used in denouncing contumaciouspersons rebels and outlaws, which was done with three blasts of the horn by the king’ssergeant. This was called “putting to

L. Fr. An army. Britt. C. 22. A military expedition; war. Kelham.

A fee paid for housing goods by a carrier, or at a wharf, etc.

In old records. A hill. 2 Mon. Augl. 292; Cowell.

In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 356.

In the Civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to his wife, at his death, ubove her dowry

The Casarean operation. See CESAREAN SECTION.

Lat. In conveyancing. The clause usually following the granting part ofthe premises of a deed, which defines the extent of the ownership In the tiling grantedto be held and enjoyed by the

A person given to ebriety or the excessive use of intoxicatingdrink, who has lost the i>ower or the will, by frequent indulgence, to controlhis appetite for it Ludwick v. Com., 18 Pa.

In Roman law. Thehwrcditas was a universal succession by law to any deceased person, whether suchperson had died testate or intestate, and whether in trust (ex fidcicommisso) foranother or not. The like

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting ofpublic assemblies, conventions, courts, etc.In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate’s courtwas held

A hamper or basket in which were kept the writs of the court of chanceryrelating to the business of a subject, and their returns. 3 Bl. Comm. 40. According toothers, the fees