Category: H

In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, betweenMichaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself ;winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the prosecution,on a criminal trial, or by the defense, as an explanation of the facts in evidence,and a ground for inferring guilt

A covenant by a lessee to “put the premises Into habitablerepair” binds him to put them into such a state that they may be occupied, not onlywith safety, but with reasonable comfort,

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.