Category: H

An engine to take fish In the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 18.

Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing acrest; the tiller or handle of the rudder of a ship.

In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right topasture cattle on another’s ground.Feed for cattle in fields and pastures. Bract, fol. 222; Co. Litt. 40: Shep. Touch. 07.A

In Spanish law. A piece of land under cultivation; a cultivated farm, realestate; an inheritance or heirship.

In Scotch law. A gift or present made or left by a tenant to his lord as atoken of reverence. Skene.

A heron. Cowell.

In Spanish law. A noble; a person entitled to the rights of nobility. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from good situations in life, (de buenos lugures,) and possessed of property, (algo.)

The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and administeredby the government of British India.

Sax. A servant fed at his master’s cost

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79,

A writ to the escheator commanding him to deliverseisin of lands to the heir of the king’s tenant, notwithstanding his homage not done.Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 269.

In Spanish law. The tacit consent and approval inferred by lawfrom the omission of the parties, for the space of ten days, to complain of the sentencesof arbitrators, appointment of syndics, or

In old English law. A valley. Cowell.

An animal of the genus eqiuts and species cabaUus. In a narrow and strictsense, the term is applied only to the male, and only to males of four years old orthereabouts, younger

Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4.

A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used In conveying passengersand goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

In English law. The inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, ancientlythe suitors or judges of the hundred court. Persons impaneled or fit to be impaneledupon juries, dwelling within the hundred where the

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within abuilding, at a time when other courts were held iu the opeu air. It was a local court.The county court iu the

To pledge a thing without delivering the possession of it to thepledgee. “The master, when abroad, and in the absence of the owner, mayhypothecate the ship, freight, and cargo, to raise money

Lat Have or take your effects to yourself. One of the oldRoman forms of divorcing a wife. Calvin.