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HallA public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Building
Estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Hall
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Mansion
This term is synonymous with house. A portion only of a building may come under the description of a mansion-house.
Habitation
1) Civil law. It was the right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. 2) Estates. A dwelling-house, a home-stall.
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Half proof
Semiplena probatio, civil law. Full proof is that which is sufficient to end the controversy, while half proof is that which is insufficient, as the foundation of a sentence or decree, although in itself entitled to some credit.
Half seal
A seal used in the English chancery for the sealing of commissions to delegates appointed upon any appeal, either in ecclesiastioal or marine causes.
Half year
In the computation of time, a half year consists of one hundred and eighty-two days.
Half-blood
Parentage, kindred. When persons have only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood. For example, if John marry Sarah and has a son by that marriage, and after Sarah's death he marry Maria, and has by her another son, these children are of the half-blood; whereas two of the children of John and Sarah would be of the whole blood. By the English common law, one related to an intestate of the half-blood only, could never inherit, upon the presumption that he is not of the blood of the original purchaser; but this rule has been greatly modified.
Half-brother and half-sister
Persons who have the same father but different mothers; or the same mother but different fathers.
Hall
Halmote
The name of a court among the Saxons. It had civil and criminal jurisdiction.
Hamesucken
Scotch law. The crime of hamesucken consists in "the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house." The mere breaking into a house, without personal violence, does not constitute the offence, nor does the violence without an entry with intent to, commit an assault. It is the combination of both which completes the crime.
Hamlet
English law. A small village; a part or member of a vill.
Hanaper
Hanaperium, a large vase; a vessel to keep cups in; hanapus, a cup, bowl. Whence the word hamper. A bag or basket, kept in offices of the court of chancery to receive dues paid for the seals of charters, patents, commissions, and writs; then, the exchequer of chancery.
Hanaper office
English law. This is the name of one of the offices belonging to the English court of chancery.
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Public
By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a particular place; as, the New York public.
Building
Estates. An edifice erected by art, and fixed upon or over the soil, composed of stone, brick, marble, wood, or other proper substance.
Employed
One who is in the service of another. Such a person is entitled to rights and liable to.perform certain duties.
City
Government. A town incorporated by that name.
Hall
A public building used either for the meetings of corporations, courts, or employed to some public uses; as the city hall, the town hall. Formerly this word denoted the chief mansion or habitation.
Town
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some other of the middle states, it signifies a village or a city. In some of the northeastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county, called in other places a township.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Chief
Principal. One who is put above the rest.
Mansion
This term is synonymous with house. A portion only of a building may come under the description of a mansion-house.
Habitation
1) Civil law. It was the right of a person to live in the house of another without prejudice to the property. 2) Estates. A dwelling-house, a home-stall.
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Half proof
Semiplena probatio, civil law. Full proof is that which is sufficient to end the controversy, while half proof is that which is insufficient, as the foundation of a sentence or decree, although in itself entitled to some credit.
Half seal
A seal used in the English chancery for the sealing of commissions to delegates appointed upon any appeal, either in ecclesiastioal or marine causes.
Half year
In the computation of time, a half year consists of one hundred and eighty-two days.
Half-blood
Parentage, kindred. When persons have only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood. For example, if John marry Sarah and has a son by that marriage, and after Sarah's death he marry Maria, and has by her another son, these children are of the half-blood; whereas two of the children of John and Sarah would be of the whole blood. By the English common law, one related to an intestate of the half-blood only, could never inherit, upon the presumption that he is not of the blood of the original purchaser; but this rule has been greatly modified.
Half-brother and half-sister
Persons who have the same father but different mothers; or the same mother but different fathers.
Hall
Halmote
The name of a court among the Saxons. It had civil and criminal jurisdiction.
Hamesucken
Scotch law. The crime of hamesucken consists in "the felonious seeking and invasion of a person in his dwelling house." The mere breaking into a house, without personal violence, does not constitute the offence, nor does the violence without an entry with intent to, commit an assault. It is the combination of both which completes the crime.
Hamlet
English law. A small village; a part or member of a vill.
Hanaper
Hanaperium, a large vase; a vessel to keep cups in; hanapus, a cup, bowl. Whence the word hamper. A bag or basket, kept in offices of the court of chancery to receive dues paid for the seals of charters, patents, commissions, and writs; then, the exchequer of chancery.
Hanaper office
English law. This is the name of one of the offices belonging to the English court of chancery.
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