Category: H

A title of honor given to princes. The kings of England, before the timeof James I., were not usually saluted with the title of “Majesty,” but with that of”Highness.” The children of

Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant,during a

A measure of weight in use in Wales, equal to 108 pounds, being made upof four Welsh pecks of 42 pounds each. Hughes v. Humphreys, 20 Eng. L. & Eq. 132.

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some importantevent in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usualoperations of business are suspended and the

Lat. Homicide, (q. v.)Homicidium ex justitia, homicide in the administration of justice, or in the executionof the sentence of the law.Homicidium ex necessitate, homicide from Inevitable necessity, as for the protectionof one’s

v. To accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, atmaturity and according to its tenor. Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 199; Clarke v. Cock,4 East,

In old records. Barley. Hordcum palmale, beer barley, as distinguishedfrom common barley, which was called “hordeum quadragesimale.” Blount.

A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallachia.

1. A dwelling; a building designed for the habitation and residence of men.”House” means, presumptively, a dwelling- house ; a building divided into floors andapartments, with four walls, a roof, and doors

In old records. A hulk or small vessel. Cowell.

“A married man; one who has a lawful wife living. The correlative of “”wife.””Etymologically, the word signified the “”house bond;”” the man who, according toSaxon ideas and institutions, held around him the

In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the patientsusceptible to suggestion at the will of another.The hypnotic state is an abnormal condition of the mind and senses, in the nature

Those who, having been thought dead, had, after a long absencein foreign countries, returned safely home; or those who, having been thoughtdead in battle, had afterwards unexpectedly escaped from their enemies and

A writ commanding the sheriff to bring up the persons of jurors, and. if need were, todistrain them of their lands and goods, in order to insure or compel their attendance incourt

In the civil law. Theright of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. Itdiffered from a usufruct, in this: that the usufructuary might apply the

Lat. In the civil law. Heirs. The plural of hwres, (

A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. G44, 8G Am. Dec. 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min.Co., 80 Mich. 491,

Metaphorically, a forced sale or sale at public auction. “To bring to thehammer,” to put up for sale at auction. “Sold under the hammer,” sold by an officer ofthe law or by

In old European law. An arrest, or attachment. Spelman.

In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of seisin mightanciently be made, where there was a house on the premises.