Category: H

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

A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposedupon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harderthan ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 4S3.

L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane,but In what it consisted seems uncertain.

In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called “hocks.”