Category: H

The head of a religious house; the head of a college; the warden of acorporation.

A bandit; one who robs travelers upon the highway.

Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant,during a

A measure of weight in use in Wales, equal to 108 pounds, being made upof four Welsh pecks of 42 pounds each. Hughes v. Humphreys, 20 Eng. L. & Eq. 132.

A religious festival; a day set apart for commemorating some importantevent in history; a day of exemption from labor. Webster. A day upon which the usualoperations of business are suspended and the

Lat. Homicide, (q. v.)Homicidium ex justitia, homicide in the administration of justice, or in the executionof the sentence of the law.Homicidium ex necessitate, homicide from Inevitable necessity, as for the protectionof one’s

v. To accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, atmaturity and according to its tenor. Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 199; Clarke v. Cock,4 East,

In old English law. A hoard ; a treasure, or repository. Cowell.

One that kills his guest or host

In Scotch practice. The hour when a court is met. 3 How. State Tr. 603.

In French law. Marshals; ushers; process-servers; sheriffs’ officers.Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal service of process required bylaw in actions, to issue executions, etc., and to maintain order during

In Spanish law. Theft. White, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 20.

Lit Iu the civil law. Winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some ofthe old books, “yems.” Fleta, lib. 2, c. 73, S

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.

A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26.

In old English law. Hatred; ill will; prejudice, or partiality. Spelman; Cowell.

A hedge. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 273.

A holy or ecclesiastical court.A court held in London before the lord mayor and sheriffs, for regulating the bakers.It was anciently held on Sunday next before St. Thomas’ day, and therefore called

Anciently, among all the northern nations, shaking of hands was heldnecessary to bind a bargain,

A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposedupon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harderthan ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 4S3.