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HOMME

Fr. Man; a man. This term is defined by the Civil Code of Louisiana toinclude a woman. Article 3522, notes 1, 2.

HONY

L. Fr. Shame; evil; disgrace. Bony soit qui mal y pense, evil be to him whoevil thinks.

HORS

L. Fr. Out; out of; without.

HOSTIA

In old records. The host- bread, or consecrated wafer, in the eucha- ristCowell.

HOUSEKEEPER

One who is in actual possession of and who occupies a house, asdistinguished from a “boarder,” ‘lodger,” or “guest.” See Bell v. Keach, 80 Ky. 45; Veilev. Koch, 27 111. 131.

HUNDREDARIUS

In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given tothe chief officer of a hundred, as well as to the freeholders who composed it. Spel. voc.”Hundredus.”

HUSFASTNE

He who holds house and laud. Bract. 1. 3, t 2, c. 10.

HYPOTHECA

“Ilypotheca” was a term of the Itoman law, and denoted a pledge ormortgage. As distinguished from the term “pignus,” in the same law, it denoted a mortgage,whether of lands or of goods,

HABERE FACIAS SEISINAM

L. Lat. That you cause to have seisin. The writ ofexecution in real actions, directing the sheriff to cause the demandant to have seisin ofthe lands recovered. It was the proper process

HADBOTE

In Saxon law. A recompense or satisfaction for the violation of holyorders, or violence offered to persons in holy orders. Cowell; Blount

HALLUCINATION

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbiderror either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; apsychological state, such as

HANDBILL

A written or printed notice displayed to inform those concerned ofsomething to be done. People v. McLaughlin, 33 Misc. Rep. 091, 6S N. Y. Supp. 1108.

HARBOR

v. To receive clandestinely and without lawful authority a person for thepurpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful custody of suchperson shall be deprived of the

HAUSTUS

Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to drawwater from another’s well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well orspring,) so

HEABRIGHT CERTIFICATE

In the laws of the republic of Texas, a certificate issued under authority of an act of 1939,which provided that every person immigrating to the republic between October 1, 1937, and January

HEBDOMADIUS

A week’s man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, whohad the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.

HEIRSHIP MOVABLES

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not tothe executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as thebest of furniture, horses, cows,

HERALD

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carriedmessages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, ortruce. In English law, a herald is an officer whose duty

HEREAFTER

A word of futurity, always used in statutes and legal documents asindicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past. Chapman v. Holmes,10 N. J. Law, 20; Tremont & S.

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