HAGA
A house in a city or borough. Scott.
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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
v. To receive clandestinely and without lawful authority a person for thepurpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful custody of suchperson shall be deprived of the
Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to drawwater from another’s well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well orspring,) so
A syllabus to a reported case: a summary of the points decided in thecase, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report.
In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and thetrial of him. within a certain liberty. Cowell.
A female heir to a person having an estate of inheritance. When there aremore than one, they are called “co-heiresses,” or “co-heirs.”
Peter-pence, (q. v.)
One who herds or has charge of a herd of cattle, in the senses above defined.See Hooker v. McAllister, 12 Wash. 40, 40 Pac. 017; Underwood v. Birdsell, 6Mont. 142, 9 Pac.
Heir; an heir. A form of hcrrcs, very common in the civil law. See ILERES.
In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the subject ofproperty; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in whatevermode they may have been acquired, either by
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.
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