Succession by inheritance.

A word used in deeds of conveyance, (either solely, or in connection withothers,) where it Is intended to pass a fee.

The quality or condition of being heir, or the relation between the heirand his ancestor.

In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not tothe executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as thebest of furniture, horses, cows,

The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where theking’s debtors were confined. Rich. Diet

Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing acrest; the tiller or handle of the rudder of a ship.

The end-wall covering and defending the rest of the building.Paroch. Antiq. 573

In medical jurisprudence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one side ofthe body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes originating from tliespinal cord, as in “Brown-Sequard’s paralysis,” unilateral paralysis with

A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes,and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present timeforward, but excludes all the past. Thomson v.

A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.

A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; acomposition for eggs. Cowell.

A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book.

In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction.

Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,

Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancientEnglish chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kiugs of thatname. Spelman.

In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class offreemen, viz., folgeras, (folgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were houseretainersof their lords.

Peter-pence, (q. v.)

In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.

A government exercised by seven persons or a nation divided into seven governments. In the year 500, seven different monarchies had been formed in England by the German tribes, namely, that of

In ancient law, a herald was a diplomatic messenger who carriedmessages between kings or states, and especially proclamations of war, peace, ortruce. In English law, a herald is an officer whose duty