Category: H

An inn. Cowell.

A heriot, (q. v.)

In old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for not obeying the proclamationmade for warfare. Skene.

This was a composition in money for the custom of supplyingherrings for the provision of a religious house. Wharton.

This term, as used in variouscompound legal phrases, is sometimes merely an addition of dignity, not importing acomparison; but more generally it means exalted, either in rank or location, oroccupying a position

A subject. Du Cange.

In Saxon law. An unlawful assembly from eight to thirty-five, inclusive.Cowell.

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman.

Pertaining to homicide; relating to homicide; impelling to homicide; asa homicidal mania. (See INSANITY.)

Lat. To live honorably, creditably, or virtuously. One of the threegeneral precepts to which Justinian reduced the whole doctrine of the law, (lust. 1, 1,3; Bract, fols. 3, 36,) the others being

In old English law. A treasurer. Du Cange.

Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Reg. Orig. 105. Hospitia curia:,inns of court. Hospitia canccllarice, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 420; 4Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.

The twenty-fourth part of a natural day; sixty minutes of time.

A ship used to transport horses. Also termed “uffer.”

A ram or wether.

An instrument for measuring the density of liuids. Being immersed iuliuids, as iu water, briue, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of theirdensity, or their specific gravity, aud theuce their quality.

In old English law. A parish.

This letter, as an abbreviation, stands for Henry (a king of that name) in tbe citationof English statutes. In the Year Books, it is used as an abbreviation for Hilary term.In tax

Fr. In French and Canadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenantwho kept hearth and home ou the seigniory.

An ancient writ, directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of au heir, beingin ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of