HARNESS
All warlike instruments: also the tackle or furniture of a ship.
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All warlike instruments: also the tackle or furniture of a ship.
Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cryafter felons and malefactors. Cowell.
In old Scotch law. The form of entering an heir in a subjectsituated within a royal borough. It consisted of the heir’s taking hold of the hasp andstaple of the door, (which
In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of seisin mightanciently be made, where there was a house on the premises.
In maritime law. Primage; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship.
O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman.
A green plot in a valley.
The use of this word, instead of the statutory word “carry,” in an indictmentcharging that the defendant “did feloniously steal, take, and haul away” certainpersonalty, will not render the indictment bad, the
In old English law. Hatred. I-eg. Wm. I. c. 16; Blount.
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
L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.
L Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2.
In old English law. A man armed with a coat of mail. Jacob.
Lat. A form of the salutatory expression “Ave,” used in the titles of some ofthe constitutions of the Theodosian and Justinianean codes. See Cod. 7, 62, 9; Id. 9, 2,11.
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
A small parcel of land so called in Kent; houses. Co. Litt. 5.
A coat or shirt of mail; hence, derivatively (in feudal law) one who held afief on the duty or service of providing himself with such armor and standing ready,thus equipped, for military
In old English law. A valley. Co. Litt. 56.
A trader who goes from place to place, or along the streets of a town, selling the goods which he carries with him.It is perhaps not essential to the idea, but is
Another name for “hedge- bote,” being one of the estovers allowed to atenant for life or years, namely, material for repairing the necessary hedges or fences ofhis grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 35;
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