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HOCK-TUESDAY MONEY

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.

HODGE-PODGE ACT

A name applied to a statute which comprises a medley ofincongruous subjects.

HOGA

In old English law. A hill or mountain. In old English, a hoio. Grcne lioya,Grenehow. Domesday; Spelman.

HOGASTER

In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79,

HOGHENHYNE

In Saxon law. A house-servant. Any stranger who lodged threenights or more at a man’s house in a decennary was called “lioghenliyne,” and his hostbecame responsible for his acts as for those

HOGSHEAD

A measure of a capacity containing the fourth part of a tun, or sixtythreegallons. Cowell. A large cask, of indefinite contents, but usually containing fromone hundred to one hundred and forty gallons.

HOLD

v. 1. To possess in virtue of a lawful title; as In the expression, common ingrants, “to have and to hold,” or in that applied to notes, “the owner and holder.”Thompson v.

HOLDER

The holder of a bill of exchange, promissory note, or check is the person who has legally acquired the possession of the same, from a person capable of transferring it, by indorsement

HOLDES

Sax. In Saxon law. A military commander. Spelman.

HOLDING

In English law. A piece of land held under a lease or similar tenancy foragricultural, pastoral, or similar purposes.In Scotch law. The tenure or nature of the right given by the superior

HOLIDAY

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

HOLM

An island In a river or the sea. Spelman.Plain grassy ground upon water sides or in the water. Blount. Low ground intersectedwith streams. Spelman.

HOLOGRAFO

In Spanish law. A holograph. An instrument (particularly a will) whollyin the handwriting of the person executing it; or which, to be valid, must be so writtenby his own hand.

HOLOGRAPH

A will or deed written entirely by the testator or grantor with his ownhand. Estate of Billings, 64 Cal. 427, 1 Pac. 701; Harrison v. Weatherby, ISO 111. 418,54 N. E. 237.

HOLT

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

HOLY ORDERS

In ecclesiastical law. The orders of bishops, (including archbishops.)priests, and deacons in the Church of England. The Roman canonists had the orders ofbishop, (in which the pope and archbishops were included.) priest,

HOMAGE

In feudal law. A service (or the ceremony of rendering it) which a tenantwas bound to perform to his lord on receiving investiture of a fee, or succeeding to it asheir, in

HOMAGER

One who does or is bound to do homage. Cowell.

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