Category: H

1. In old English law. Anunlawful game at dice, those who play at it being called “hazardors.” Jacob.2. In modern law. Any game of chance or wagering. Cheek v. Com., 100 Ky.

In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicidefrom the grade of murder to that of manslaughter.

At common law. A person who succeeds, by the rules of law, to an estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments, upon the death of his ancestor, by descent and right of relationship.

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancientEnglish chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kiugs of thatname. Spelman.

In the civil law. To be divided. Familia hcrclscunda, an inheritance tobe divided. Actio familia; hcrcis- cundw, an action for dividing an inheritance.Erciscunda is more commonly used in the civil law. Dig.

An archdeacon. Cowell.

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases.

A little loaf of bread.

In English law. A hawker or peddler. A person who carries from door todoor, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like.

In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt. 4&.

Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law.) Anobservation quoted by Black- stone as used by Ulpian in tlie civil law;

In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particularly a will) whollyin the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so writtenby his own hand.

In old English law. A writ directed to a corporation, requiringthe members to make choice of a man to keep one part of the seal appointed forstatutes merchant, when a former is

Lat. In Roman law. The law of the prajtors and the edicts of thetediles.

A primer; a book explaining tbe rudiments of any science or branch ofknowledge. The phrase “hornbook law” is a colloquial designation of the rudiments ormost familiar principles of law.

A person who is given into the possession of the enemy, iu a public war,his freedom (or life) to stand as security for the performance of some contract orpromise made by the

In criminal law. Breaking and entering a dwelling-house withIntent to commit any felony therein. If done by night, it comes under the definition of”burglary.”

A moist place. Mon. Angl.

Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense ofoperating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 lleisk. (Tenn.) 510; McCue v.Tunstead, 05 Cal. 500, 4 Pac. 510.

See INSANITY.