Category: H

In maritime law. Primage; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship.

1. In old English law. Anunlawful game at dice, those who play at it being called “hazardors.” Jacob.2. In modern law. Any game of chance or wagering. Cheek v. Com., 100 Ky.

In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicidefrom the grade of murder to that of manslaughter.

At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship.

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancientEnglish chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kiugs of thatname. Spelman.

In the civil law. To be divided. Familia hcrclscunda, an inheritance tobe divided. Actio familia; hcrcis- cundw, an action for dividing an inheritance.Erciscunda is more commonly used in the civil law. Dig.

An archdeacon. Cowell.

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.