Category: H

A hedge. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 273.

A holy or ecclesiastical court.A court held in London before the lord mayor and sheriffs, for regulating the bakers.It was anciently held on Sunday next before St. Thomas’ day, and therefore called

Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was heldnecessary to bind a bargain,

Lawful coined money. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 536.

L Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2.

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court.

An engine to take fish In the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18.

Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing acrest; the tiller or handle of the rudder of a ship.

In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right topasture cattle on another’s ground.Feed for cattle in fields and pastures. Bract, fol. 222; Co. Litt. 40: Shep. Touch. 07.A

In Spanish law. A piece of land under cultivation; a cultivated farm, realestate; an inheritance or heirship.

In Scotch law. A gift or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as atoken of reverence. Skene.

A heron. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A noble; a person entitled to the rights of nobility. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from good situations in life, (de buenos lugures,) and possessed of property, (algo.)

The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and administeredby the government of British India.

Sax. A servant fed at his master’s cost

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79,

A writ to the escheator commanding him to deliverseisin of lands to the heir of the king’s tenant, notwithstanding his homage not done.Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 269.

In Spanish law. The tacit consent and approval inferred by lawfrom the omission of the parties, for the space of ten days, to complain of the sentencesof arbitrators, appointment of syndics, or

In old English law. A valley. Cowell.

An animal of the genus eqiuts and species cabaUus. In a narrow and strictsense, the term is applied only to the male, and only to males of four years old orthereabouts, younger