Category: H

This term, as used in variouscompound legal phrases, is sometimes merely an addition of dignity, not importing acomparison; but more generally it means exalted, either in rank or location, oroccupying a position

v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor orservices of another. See HIKING.To engage in service for a stipulated reward. as to hire a servant

In Saxou law. A fine for being present at an unlawful assembly.Spelman.

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is the person who has legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of transferring it, by indorsement

The home place; the place where the home is. It is the home, thehouse and the adjoining land, where the head of the family dwells; the home farm. Thelixed residence of the

Sax. Having in hand. See IlANDIIABENn.

In old records. A cow in calf.

A host or entertainer.Hospitator communis. Au innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32.llospitator magnus. The marshal of a camp.

An inn ; a public house or tavern ; a house for entertaining strangers ortravelers. St Louis v. Siegrist, 40 Mo. 594; People v. Jones, 54 Barb. (X. Y.) 316; Cromwellv. Stephens,

L. Fr. A door. “Al huis del es- glise,” at the door of the church. Bendloe, 133.

In such phrases as “to tbe hurt or annoyance of another,” or “hurt, molested,or restrained in his person or estate,” this word is not restricted to physical injuries, butincludes also mental pain,

See HIDAGE.

The basis, in England, of rating lands andhereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and taxes that are expressed to beleviable or assessable In like manner as the poor-rate.

This letter, as an abbreviation, stands for Henry (a king of that name) in tbe citationof English statutes. In the Year Books, it is used as an abbreviation for Hilary term.In tax

Fr. In French and Canadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenantwho kept hearth and home ou the seigniory.

An ancient writ, directed to the sheriff, to require one that had the body of au heir, beingin ward, to deliver him to the person whose ward he was by reason of

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A small village; a part or member of a vill. It is the diminutive of “ham,” avillage. Cowell. See Rex. v. Morris, 4 Term, 552.

An alliance or confederation among merchants or cities, for the good orderingand protection of the commerce of its members. An imposition uponmerchandise. Du Cange.

Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cryafter felons and malefactors. Cowell.