HEEREDA
In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.
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In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.
In old English law. A permission or liuerty to take thorns, etc., to makeor repair hedges. Blount.
In Scotch law. The violent entering into a man’s house withoutlicense or against the peace, and the seeking and assaulting him there. Skene de Verb. Sign.; 2 Forb. Inst 130.The crime of
An executioner. One who executes condemned criminals by hanging.
In old European law. The defensive armor of a man; harness. Spelman.
A small parcel of land so called in Kent; houses. Co. Litt. 5.
Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of healthis a subdivision of the right of persona! security, one of the absolute rights of persons.1 Bl. Comm. 120, 134. As
A vagabond priest in olden time.
A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.
IL.rbored or entertained in an inn. Cowell.
Sax. A going into or with an army; a going out to war, (profcctiomilitaris;) an expedition. Spelman.
In old English law. A species of military service, or knight’s fee.Cowell.
In old English law. A day’s work with a harrow. Spelman.
A sum of money paid by a villein or servant to save himself from awhipping. Fleta, 1. 1, c. 47,
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Sax. The benefit of the law. Du Cange.
v. 1. To possess in virtue of a lawful title; as In the expression, common ingrants, “to have and to hold,” or in that applied to notes, “the owner and holder.”Thompson v.
A mansion-house. Dickinson v. Mayer, 11 Heisk. (Tenn.) 521.
A term applied in the civil law to cases where a law was repeated, orlaid down in the same terms or to the same effect, more than once. Cases of iterationand repetition.
In Spanish law. A gallows; the punishment of hanging. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 19, c. 4,