In old English law. A sort of garment. Cowell.

In.English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to thelord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land.lleriots are divided into heriot scrviee and heriot custom.

In old English law. A species of military service, or knight’s fee.Cowell.

In old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for not obeying the proclamationmade for warfare. Skene.

A division of household goods. Blount

Laying down of arms. Blount. Desertion from the army. Spelman.

The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched Spelman.

Capable of being taken by descent. A term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases.

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

In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Kames, Eq. Pref.

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

The science or art of construction and interpretation. By thephrase “legal hermeneutics” is understood the systematic body of rules which arerecognized as applicable to the construction and interpretation of legal writings.

A great lord. Jacob.

See CODEX HEBMOQENIANUS.

A heron. Cowell.

Household goods; implements of trade or husbandry; the rigging or tackle of a ship. Cowell.

L. Fr. A herald.

A harrow. Spelman.

In old English law. A day’s work with a harrow. Spelman.

This was a composition in money for the custom of supplyingherrings for the provision of a religious house. Wharton.