HANTELODE

Hantelode. An arrest.

Harbor. A bay forming sheltered mooring for ships. See 51 Conn. 266, 50 Am. Rep. 16. See, also, Harboring. Hard labor.

Continuous and compulsory labor. See 74 Ala. 478. Hard money. Coin. See 5 Hill (N. Y.), 523.

Hariot. Same as Heriot.

Harlot. A whore.

Harmless error. An error in the trial of an action insufficiently grave to warrant a reversal of the judgment.

Harmless, To save. See Save harmless.

Harnasca. Armor.

Haro. Hue and cry.
Harrou. Hue and cry.
Harth-penny. Same as Chimney-

HEALTH

Hawker. One who carries about merchandise from place to place for sale. See 132 Ill. 380, 22 Am. St. Rep. 540, 8 L. R. A. 328, 24 N. E. 58.

Hay. A hedge.

Hay-bote. Estovers consisting of timber used in erecting, maintaining or repairing all hedges and fences on the premises. See 64 Am. Dec. 368, note.

Hayward. An officer whose duty it is to impound estrays. See 1 Aik. (Vt.) 316.

Hazard. To wager. See 37 Tenn. 438; a risk. See 14 Colo. 499, 20 Am. St. Rep. 281, 24 Pac. 333. Hazardous contract. See Aleatory. Head money. A gratuity distributed among a ship's officers and crew in the same manner as prize money. See 7 D. C. (U. S.) 97. Head of a family. One who has a home and a family circle thereat of one or more under his control. See 1 Lea (Tenn.), 749. See, also, 61 Am. Dec. 589, note. Headborough.

Same as Headborow. Headborow. The head or chief of

a borough, a frank pledge, or a tithing.

Headland. A ridge left in ploughing.

Head-note. The syllabus of a decision printed at the head or beginning of a report of the case. Headright certificate. A United

States land certificate representing a conditional grant of 640 acres. See 12 Tex. 399. Healgemote. Same as Halmote. Healsfang. A sort of pillory. Health. Freedom from disease. See 45 N. J. L. 310, 46 Am. Rep. 772. Health laws. Laws pertaining to sanitation and the preservation of the public health.

Same

as Chimney

Hearth-money. money. Heat of passion. Passion or anger suddenly aroused at the time by some immediate reasonable provocation by words or acts of the person killed at the time. See 134 Am. St. Rep. 730.

Hebberman. On who fished unlawfully below London bridge. Hedagium. Toll for landing goods at a wharf.

Hedge-bote. Same as Hay-bote. Hedging. A means by which collectors and exporters of grain or other products, and manufacturers who make contracts in advance for the sale of their goods, secure themselves against the fluctuations of the market by counter tracts. 198 U. S. 236, 49 L. Ed. 1031, 25 Sup. Ct. Rep. 637. Hegira. The escape of Mohammed

con

from the Meccans on Friday, July 16, 622, A. D., from whence dates the calendar of the Arabians and the Turks.

Heifer. A young cow.

Heir. One upon whom is cast an estate of inheritance upon the death of its owner. See 127 N. Y. 166,

HEIR

24 Am. St. Rep. 438, 13 L. R. A. 46, 27 N. E. 959.

Heir apparent. One who it is probable will inherit from an ancestor who is alive. See 17 N. C. 509, 27 Am. Dec. 238.

Heir at law. Same as Heir. See 64 Conn. 240, 42 Am. St. Rep. 174, 24 L. R. A. 664, 29 Atl. 478.

Heir beneficiary. (Civil Law) An heir who has accepted his inheritance under an inventory regularly made.

Heir by custom. One to whose inheritance some special custom is attached, e. g., inheritance thereof by a younger son. Heir by devise.

is left by will.

Heir collateral.

One to whom land

One taking by collateral descent, which see. Heir conventional. One succeeding to an estate under a contract or agreement.

Heir general. One who inherits by the ordinary rules of descent. Heir institute. (Scotch) One whose right to succeed to an estate appears by some instrument executed by the decedent.

Heir legal. (Civil Law) One who

inherits by descent under the law. Heir of conquest. (Scotch) An heir to property which the deceased acquired by conquest. See Conquest. Heir of line. (Scotch) One who inherits as a lineal descendant. Heir of provision. One who takes under the provision of some instrument.

Heir of tailzie. (Scotch) Same as Heir special.

Heir presumptive. Same as Heir apparent. See 17 N. C. 509, 27 Am. Dec. 238.

Heir special. An heir to an estatetail.

HEREDITAMENT

Henry II. King of England, 11541189.

Henry III. King of England, 1216– 1272.

Henry IV. King of England, 1399– 1413.

Henry V. King of England, 14131422.

Henry VI. King of England, 14221461.

Henry VII. King of England, 14851509.

Henry VIII. King of England, 1509-1547.

Heordwerch. Same as Herdwerck.

Herald. A messenger; an officer in charge of matters pertaining to heraldry.

Heraldry. The office of a herald; the art of tracing genealogy and inheritable titles and decorations. Herald's College. A corporation chartered in the 15th century for the purpose of tracing and preserving records of heraldry.

Herbage. The right to pasture.
Herbagium. Herbage.

Herbergare. To harbor.
Herbery. An inn.

Herdwerck. The work of a herdsman or shepherd.

Heredad. (Spanish) Farmed land.
Heredad yacente. (Spanish) Same
as Haereditas jacens.
Heredero.

The proprietor of an inheritance. See 64 Cal. 529, 2 Pac. 418.

Hereditament. Any property which may be inherited. See 46 Ind. 488, 15 Am. Rep. 295.

Hereditament, Corporeal. See Corporeal hereditaments.

Hereditament, Incorporeal. See Incorporeal hereditaments.

HEREDITARY

Hereditary. Of or pertaining to inheritance; inherited. See 131 U. S. 75, 33 L. Ed. 53, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 634.

Hereditary succession. Same as Descent. See 12 Am. St. Rep. 82, note.

Hereditary successor. A successor
by hereditary succession.
Hereditas. Same as Haereditas.
Heregeat. Same as Heriot.

Heregeld, or Heregild. A military tribute.

Heres. See Haeres.

Heresy. A denial of some of the essential doctrines of Christianity, publicly and obstinately avowed. See 4 Bl. Comm. 44. Heretofore. Formerly. Hereyeld. Same as Heregeld. Heriot. A feudal service of the yielding up to the lord of the best beast or other chattel on the death of the tenant. See 51 Me. 497. Heriot custom. A heriot due under

custom or usage.

HIGH

High constable of England, Lord, An office of great and numerous powers and functions, abolished by Henry VIII.

High court of admiralty. An ancient English admiralty court presided over by the Lord High Admiral. High court of delegates. A court of appeals from the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts, no longer existing.

High court of justice. A division

of the English supreme court. High court of justiciary. See Court of justiciary.

High court of parliament. The English houses of parliament; either of them; either of them in the exercise of judicial or quasijudicial functions.

High crimes and misdemeanors.

Such immoral and unlawful acts as are nearly allied and equal in guilt to felony, yet, owing to some technical circumstance, do not fall within the definition of felony. See 6 Conn. 415, 16 Am. Dec. 68. High justice. The right to try for all crimes.

High justicier. A feudal lord who asserted the rights of high justice.

High seas. "Waters on the seacoast without the boundaries of lowwater mark." See 140 U. S. 453, 35 L. Ed. 581, 11 Sup. Ct. Rep. 897. High steward, Court of the lord. See Court of the lord high steward. High treason. Treason against the king or the government. Highbinder. One of a Chinese society organized for blackmailing, murder, or both.

Higher and lower scale. The two

classes of counsel fees in England. High-water mark. In fresh-water lakes and streams, the mark where the presence and action of the Law Dict.-14

HIRING

water are so common and usual as to mark upon the soil of the bed a character distinct from that of the banks in respect to vegetation as well as to the nature of the soil itself. See 56 Minn. 513, 45 Am. St. Rep. 494, 58 N. W. 295. See, also, Flode-mark.

Highway. A public way for use of the public in general, for passage and traffic, without distinction. See 57 Am. St. Rep. 744, note. Highway robbery. Robbery on or near a highway. See 113 N. C. 645, 18 S. E. 51.

Highwayman. One attempting or committing highway robbery. Higler. Same as Huckster.

Higuela. (Spanish) An heir's signed receipt for his inheritance.

His testibus. With these witnesses. Hijodalgo. Same as Hidalgo.

Hikenild street. Same as Ikenild street.

Hilary rules. A set of English rules of pleading and practice adopted in 1834.

Hilary term. An English term of court from January 11th to 31st, inclusive.

Hinc inde. On each side. Hind. An agricultural servant. Hinder and delay. To attempt to defraud creditors; to place obstacles in their way or retard them before they can attach property of the debtor. See 42 N. Y. Super. Ct. (10 Jones & S.) 49..

Hine. Same as Hind. Hipoteca. (Spanish) A mortgage of realty.

Hire. Compensation for the use or possession of personal property. See 69 N. C. 89, 12 Am. Rep. 642. Hiring. A bailment for reward or compensation, which compensation