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HURDLE

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons weredrawn to the place of execution.

HYPOTHEQUE

In French law. Hypothecation ; a mortgage on real property; theright vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for thepayment of his debt, whether or

HABIT

A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usualrepetition of the same act or function. Knickerbocker L. Ins. Co. v. Foley, 105 U. S. 354,26 L.

HAIA

In old English law. A park Inclosed. Cowell.

HAMBLING

In forest law. The hox- ing or hock-sinewing of dogs; an old mode oflaming or disabling dogs. Termes de la Ley.

HANGING

In criminal law. Suspension by the neck ; the mode of capital punishmentused in England from time immemorial, and generally adopted in the United States. 4 Bl. Comm. 403.

HAVEN

A place of a large receipt and safe riding of ships, so situate and secured bythe land circumjacent that the vessels thereby ride and anchor safely, and are protectedby the adjacent land

HEALING ACT

Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockhart v. Troy, 43 Ala. 5S4.

HEDGE-BOTE

An allowance of wood for repairing hedges or fences, which a tenantor lessee has a right to take off the land let or demised to him. 2 Bl. Comm. 35.

HENCEFORTH

A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes,and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present timeforward, but excludes all the past. Thomson v.

HERBERGAGIUM

Lodgings to receive guests in the way of hospitality. Cowell.

HEREDITAMENTS

Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to

HERIOT

In.English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to thelord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land.lleriots are divided into heriot scrviee and heriot custom.

HIDEL

In old English law. A place of protection; a sanctuary. St. 1 Hen. VII. cc. 5,6; Cowell.

HIPOTECA

In Spanish law. A mortgage of real property.

HLAFORDSWICE

Sax. In Saxon law. The crime of betraying one’s lord, (proditiodomini;) treason. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 301.

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