Category: H

A general, leader, or commander ; also a baron of the realm. Du Fresne.

A great lord. Jacob.

The season for sowing winter corn. Cowell.

A society of men. The Saxons ranked men into three classes,and valued them, as to satisfaction for injuries, etc., according to their class. Thehighest class were valued at 1,200s.. and were called

In legal use, this term always restricts the matter in connection withwhich it is employed to a period of time already passed. Mason v. Jones, 13 Barb. (N.Y.) 479.

A name applied to a statute which comprises a medley ofincongruous subjects.

In feudal law. A service (or the ceremony of rendering it) which a tenantwas bound to perform to his lord on receiving investiture of a fee, or succeeding to it asheir, in

Fr. Iu feudal law. Feudal tenants; the same with hom- BL.LAW DICT. (2n ED.)

In old English law. A hill. Co. Litt. 56.

In old English law. The wealh, or Briton who had care of the king’shorses.

One who kills an enemy.

A place used by husbandmen to set their plows, carts, and other farmingutensils out of the rain and sun. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred

In old records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount.

Lat. In the civil law. An hypothecary action; an action for the enforcement of an hypotheca, or lightof mortgage; or to obtain the surrender of the thing mortgaged. Inst. 4, 6, 7;

Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] Thisphrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have thepossession and enjoyment. For a breach of

In Hindu law. A boundary or limit. A statutory punishment defined by law,and not arbitrary. Mozley & Whitley

A house in a city or borough. Scott.

See HALIGEMOT.

In Saxon law. A hand pledge; a name given to the nine pledges in adecennary or friborg; the tenth or chief, being called “hcadboroic” (q. v.) So called asbeing an inferior pledge