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Sax. In old English law. A wood or grove. Spelman; Cowell; Co. Litt. 4b.

In old English law. The maiming of a man. Blount.

By reason of honor or privilege. See CIIATXENOE.

In Scotch law. “Letters of horning” is the name given to a judicial processissuing on the decree of a court, by which the debtor is summoned to perform hisobligation in terms of

See HOSTLER.

The occupier of a house. Brande. More correctly, one who keepshouse with his family; the head or master of a family. Webster; 18 Johns. 302. Onewho has a household ; the head

A denomination of weight containing, according to the Englishsystem, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois.

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein Domesday Book.

In Scotland, the terra “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s rightwhich, independently of any stipulation, he has over the crop and stocking of histenant. It gives a security to the landlord

Lat. That you cause to have possession. The name of the process commonly resorted toby the successful party in an action of ejectment, for the purpose of being placed bythe sheriff in

Carriages plying for hire iu the street. The driver is liable fornegligently losing baggage. Mas- terson v. Short, 33 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 4S0.

The statute 2 lien. IV. c. 15, de hwretico comburendo,was the first penal law enacted againstheresy, and imposed the penalty of death by burning against all heretics who relapsedor who refused to

In Saxon law. Hali- gemot, (q. v.)

Money paid in hand to bind a bargain; earnest money.

In England, an officer of the royal household.

In old English law. Hatred. I-eg. Wm. I. c. 16; Blount.

A syllabus to a reported case: a summary of the points decided in thecase, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report.

A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 5.

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heirand his ancestor.

A government exercised by seven persons or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 500, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, namely, that of