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HOCK-TUESDAY MONEY

This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants andbondmen might solemnize tlie day on which the English conquered the Danes, beingthe second Tuesday after Easter week. Cowell.

HOLT

Sax. In old English law. A wood or grove. Spelman; Cowell; Co. Litt. 4b.

HONORARY

As applied to public offices and other positions of responsibility or trust,this term means either that the ollice or title is bestowed upon the incumbent as a markof honor or compliment, without

HORNGEED

Sax. In old English law. A tax within a forest, paid for horned beasts. Cowell; Blount

HOSTELAGIUM

In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment,anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell.

HOUSEHOLD

A family living together. May v. Smith, 48 Ala. 4S8; Woodward v.Murray, 18 Johns. (N. Y.) 402; Arthur v. Morgan, 112 U. S. 495, 5 Sup. Ct. 241, 28 L.Ed. 825. Those

HUNDRED

Under the Saxon organization of England, each county or shire comprisedan indefinite number of hundreds, each hundred containing ten tit kings, orgroups of ten families of freeholders or frankpledges. The hundred was

HUSBREC

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 50, 30S.

HYPOSTASIS

In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a

HABITABLE REPAIR

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,

HEEREDA

In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet.

HAIEBOTE

In old English law. A permission or liuerty to take thorns, etc., to makeor repair hedges. Blount.

HAMESECKEN

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

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

HEALER

One who heals or cures ; specifically, one who professes to cure bodilydiseases without medicine or any material means, according to the tenets and practicesof so-called “Christian Science,” whose beliefs and practices,

HEDA

A small haven, wharf, or landing place.

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