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In old English law. A hill. Co. Litt. 56.

The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst. Eng.

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information;pay to secure silence.

The name of an action allowed under the civil law for theenforcement of the claims of a creditor by the contract of hypotheca. Lovell v. Cragin,336 U. S. 130, 10 Sup. Ct

Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] Thisphrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have thepossession and enjoyment. For a breach of

In Hindu law. A boundary or limit. A statutory punishment defined by law,and not arbitrary. Mozley & Whitley

A house in a city or borough. Scott.

See HALIGEMOT.

In Saxon law. A hand pledge; a name given to the nine pledges in adecennary or friborg; the tenth or chief, being called “hcadboroic” (q. v.) So called asbeing an inferior pledge

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.

L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane,but In what it consisted seems uncertain.

In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called “hocks.”

The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where theking’s debtors were confined. Rich. Diet

The art, office, or science of heralds. Also an old and obsolete abuse ofbuying and selling precedence in the paper of causes for hearing.

In old English law. A proclamation summoning the army into the field.A mulct or fine for not joining the army when summoned. Spelman.A tax or tribute for the support of the army.

This word simply denotes time past, in distinction from time presentor time future, and has no definite and precise signification beyond this. Andrews v.Thayer, 40 Conn. 157.

See CODEX HEBMOQENIANUS.

HIDAGE. An extraordinary tax formerly payable to the crown for every hide of land. Thistaxation was levied, not in money, but provision of armor, etc. Cowell.

To hinder and delay is to do something which is au attempt todefraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some obstacle in the path, or interposesome time, unjustifiably, before the creditor