Category: H

Herdsmen’s work, or customary labor, done by shepherds and inferior tenants, at thewill of the lord. Cowell.

In English law. An offense against religion, consisting not in a total denialof Christianity, but of some of its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. 4Bl. Comm. 44, 45. An opinion on

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By thephrase “legal hermeneutics” is understood the systematic body of rules which arerecognized as applicable to the construction and interpretation of legal writings.

A hay-net; a net forcatching conies. Cowell.

In English law. A term of court, begining on the 11th and ending onthe 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which beginJanuary 11th, and end on the

Lat. These being witnesses. The attestation clause in old deeds andcharters.

A kuight of the post; a decayed man ; a basket carrier. Cowell.

In ecclesiastical law. The orders of bishops, (including archbishops.)priests, and deacons in the Church of England. The Roman canonists had the orders ofbishop, (in which the pope and archbishops were included.) priest,

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

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

L. Fr. Out; out of; without.

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

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.

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.”

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

“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,

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

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

A haven or port Cowell.

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