HARD LABOR
A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposedupon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harderthan ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 4S3.
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A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposedupon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harderthan ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 4S3.
Lawful coined money. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 536.
In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three halfpence.1 I’itc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.
The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bearupon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction,which is otherwise termed the “argument ab inconvenienti.”
See ERROR.
In old European law. The defensive armor of a man; harness. Spelman.
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.