Category: H

In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough ; chief of thefrankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty constablesliipwas created, united with that office.

In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection withothers,) where it Is intended to pass a fee.

In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. lit. 3.

A hired soldier who departs without license. 4 Inst. 128.

In medical jurisprudence. A person of doubtful or double sex;one possessing, really or apparently, and in more or less developed form, some or all ofthe genital organs of both sexes.Hermaphroditus tarn musculo

In old records. A customary burden upon inferior tenants, for mending orrepairing hays or hedges.

A collection of orders and forms extensively modifying the pleadingand practice in the English superior courts of common law, established iu Hilary term,1S34. Stimson.

A title given by the constitution of Massachusetts to the lieutenantgovernorof that commonwealth. Const. Mass. pt. 2, c. 2.

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.

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

In old English law. The maiming of a man. Blount.

By reason of honor or privilege. See CIIATXENOE.

In Scotch law. “Letters of horning” is the name given to a judicial processissuing on the decree of a court, by which the debtor is summoned to perform hisobligation in terms of

See HOSTLER.

The occupier of a house. Brande. More correctly, one who keepshouse with his family; the head or master of a family. Webster; 18 Johns. 302. Onewho has a household ; the head

A denomination of weight containing, according to the Englishsystem, 112 pounds; but in this country, generally, it consists of 100 pounds avoirdupois.

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein Domesday Book.

In Scotland, the terra “hypothec” is used to signify the landlord’s rightwhich, independently of any stipulation, he has over the crop and stocking of histenant. It gives a security to the landlord