A haven or port Cowell.

A house in a city or borough. Scott.

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

A little hand-gun. St 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6.

A hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne. St 2 & 3 Edw. VI. C.14; 4 & 5 P. & M. c. 2.

In old English law. A park Inclosed. Cowell.

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

In Scotch law. Whole; the whole. “All and haill” are common words inconveyances. 1 Bell, App. Cas. 499.

(i. e

In old Scotch law. To seek restitution of one’s own goods and gear,and bring the same home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.

A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. G44, 8G Am. Dec. 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min.Co., 80 Mich. 491,

A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial ofa person accused of crime and the infliction of death upon him; from the name of theparish of Halifax, in England,

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting ofpublic assemblies, conventions, courts, etc.In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate’s courtwas held

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended In a hall. Jacob.A toll due to the lord of a fair or market for such commodities as

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something whichpreviously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the first occupant.Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49; 5,

In Saxon law. Hali- gemot, (q. v.)

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbiderror either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; apsychological state, such as

See HALIGEMOT.

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

Sax. In old English law. Tenants who held land by the service ofrepairing or defending a church or monument, whereby they were exempted fromfeudal and military services.