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HouseEstates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
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Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
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.
Man
A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a man by a man.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
Grant
Conveyancing, concessio. Technically speaking, grants are applicable to the conveyance of incorporeal rights, though in the largest sense, the term comprehends everything that is granted or passed from one to another, and is applied to every species of property. Grant is one of the usual words in a feoffment, and differs but little except in the subject-matter; for the operative words used in grants are dedi et concessi, "have given and granted."
Demise
"1) Contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is a lease or conveyance for a term of years. 2) Persons. A term nearly synonymous with death. It is usually applied in England to the death of the king or queen.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Curtilage
Estates. The open space situated within a common enclosure belonging to a dwelling-house.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Pass
1) In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which-such certificate is written is also called a pass. 2) practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let the judgment pass for the plaintiff.
Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
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House of commons
English law. The representatives of the people, in contradistinction to the nobles, taken collectively are called the house of commons.
House of corrections
A prison where offenders of a particular class are confined. The term is more common in England than in the United States.
House of lords
English law. The English lords, temporal and spiritual, when taken collectively and forming a branch of the parliament, are called the House of Lords.
House of refuge
Punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United Statees on the most humane principles, by special local laws.
House of representatives
Government. The popular branch of the legislature.
House-bote
An allowance of necessary timber out of the landlord's woods, for the repairing and support of a house or tenement. This belongs of common-right to any lessee for years or for life. House-bote is said to be of two kinds, estoveriam aedificandi et ardendi.
House-breaking
Breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another with intent to commit a felony therein, irrespective of the time of day.
Household
A family; also, pertaining or appropriate to a house or family; household furniture, goods, stuff. Persons who dwell together as a family.
Householder
The head of a household; the person who has charge of, and provides for, a family or household.
Housekeeper
"One who occupies a house. The Constitution of the United States, provides, that ""the house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of, the several states; and the electors of each state, shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.""
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Hostile witness
During an examination-in-chief, a lawyer is not allowed to ask leading questions of their own witness. But, if that witness openly shows hostility against the interests (or the person) that the lawyer represents, the lawyer may ask the court to declare the witness "hostile", after which, as an exception of the examination-in-chief rules, the lawyer may ask their own witness leading questions.
Hostility
A state of open enmity; open war. Hostility, as it regards individuals, may be permanent or temporary; it is permanent when the individual is a citizen or subject of the government at war, and temporary when he happens to be domiciliated or resident in the country of one of the belligerents; in this latter case the individual may throw off the national character he has thus acquired by residence, when he puts himself in motion, bona fide, to quit the country sine animo revertendi.
Hot line
A telephone number to report suspected Fraud. Often hot lines are handled as anonymous tips.
Hotchpot
Eestates. This homely term is used figuratively to signify the blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally among those entitled to it. For example, if a man seised of thirty acres of land, and having two children, should, on the marriage of one of them, give him ten acres of it, and then die intestate seised of the remaining twenty; now, in order to obtain his portion of the latter, the married child, must bring back the ten acres he received, and add it to his father's estate, when an equal division of the whole will take place, and each be entitled to fifteen acres.
Hour
Measure of time. The space of sixty minutes, or the twenty-fourth part of a natural day.
House
House of commons
English law. The representatives of the people, in contradistinction to the nobles, taken collectively are called the house of commons.
House of corrections
A prison where offenders of a particular class are confined. The term is more common in England than in the United States.
House of lords
English law. The English lords, temporal and spiritual, when taken collectively and forming a branch of the parliament, are called the House of Lords.
House of refuge
Punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United Statees on the most humane principles, by special local laws.
House of representatives
Government. The popular branch of the legislature.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Place
Pleading, evidence. A particular portion of space; locality.
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.
Man
A human being. This definition includes not only the adult male sex of the human species, but women and children; examples: "of offences against man, some are more immediately against the king, other's more immediately against the subject." Hawk. P. C. book 1, c. 2, s. 1. Offences against the life of man come under the general name of homicide, which in our law signifies the killing of a man by a man.
Word
Construction. One or more syllables which when united convey an idea a single part of speech.
Several
A state of separation or partition. A several agreement or cove-nant, is one entered into by two or more persons separately, each binding himself for the whole; a several action is one in which two or more persons are separately charged; a several inheritance, is one conveyed so as to descend, or come to two persons separately by moieties. Several is usually opposed to joint.
Things
By this word is understood every object, except man, which may become an active subject of right. Code du Canton de Berne, art. 332. In this sense it is opposed, in the language of the law, to the word persons.
Grant
Conveyancing, concessio. Technically speaking, grants are applicable to the conveyance of incorporeal rights, though in the largest sense, the term comprehends everything that is granted or passed from one to another, and is applied to every species of property. Grant is one of the usual words in a feoffment, and differs but little except in the subject-matter; for the operative words used in grants are dedi et concessi, "have given and granted."
Demise
"1) Contracts. In its most extended signification, it is a conveyance either in fee, for life, or for years. In its more technical meaning, it is a lease or conveyance for a term of years. 2) Persons. A term nearly synonymous with death. It is usually applied in England to the death of the king or queen.
House
Estates. A place for the habitation and dwelling of man. This word has several significations, as it is applied to different things. In a grant or demise of a house, the curtilage and garden will pass, even without the words "with the appurtenances," being added.
Curtilage
Estates. The open space situated within a common enclosure belonging to a dwelling-house.
Garden
A piece of ground appropriated to raising plants and flowers.
Will
A will is a legal document in which a person directs how his property is to be distributed after his death. Such documents must be executed in due form and must be duly witnessed.
Pass
1) In the slave states this word signifies a certificate given by the master or mistress to a slave, in which it is stated that he is permitted to leave his home, with the authority of his master or mistress. The paper on which-such certificate is written is also called a pass. 2) practice. To be given, or entered; to proceed; as, let the judgment pass for the plaintiff.
Without
Pleading. This word is adopted in formal traverses, and is a negative signifying "and not for;" accordingly the language of the elder entries sometimes is, It et nemy pur tiel cause.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
House of commons
English law. The representatives of the people, in contradistinction to the nobles, taken collectively are called the house of commons.
House of corrections
A prison where offenders of a particular class are confined. The term is more common in England than in the United States.
House of lords
English law. The English lords, temporal and spiritual, when taken collectively and forming a branch of the parliament, are called the House of Lords.
House of refuge
Punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United Statees on the most humane principles, by special local laws.
House of representatives
Government. The popular branch of the legislature.
House-bote
An allowance of necessary timber out of the landlord's woods, for the repairing and support of a house or tenement. This belongs of common-right to any lessee for years or for life. House-bote is said to be of two kinds, estoveriam aedificandi et ardendi.
House-breaking
Breaking and entering the dwelling-house of another with intent to commit a felony therein, irrespective of the time of day.
Household
A family; also, pertaining or appropriate to a house or family; household furniture, goods, stuff. Persons who dwell together as a family.
Householder
The head of a household; the person who has charge of, and provides for, a family or household.
Housekeeper
"One who occupies a house. The Constitution of the United States, provides, that ""the house of representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of, the several states; and the electors of each state, shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature.""
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Hostile witness
During an examination-in-chief, a lawyer is not allowed to ask leading questions of their own witness. But, if that witness openly shows hostility against the interests (or the person) that the lawyer represents, the lawyer may ask the court to declare the witness "hostile", after which, as an exception of the examination-in-chief rules, the lawyer may ask their own witness leading questions.
Hostility
A state of open enmity; open war. Hostility, as it regards individuals, may be permanent or temporary; it is permanent when the individual is a citizen or subject of the government at war, and temporary when he happens to be domiciliated or resident in the country of one of the belligerents; in this latter case the individual may throw off the national character he has thus acquired by residence, when he puts himself in motion, bona fide, to quit the country sine animo revertendi.
Hot line
A telephone number to report suspected Fraud. Often hot lines are handled as anonymous tips.
Hotchpot
Eestates. This homely term is used figuratively to signify the blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally among those entitled to it. For example, if a man seised of thirty acres of land, and having two children, should, on the marriage of one of them, give him ten acres of it, and then die intestate seised of the remaining twenty; now, in order to obtain his portion of the latter, the married child, must bring back the ten acres he received, and add it to his father's estate, when an equal division of the whole will take place, and each be entitled to fifteen acres.
Hour
Measure of time. The space of sixty minutes, or the twenty-fourth part of a natural day.
House
House of commons
English law. The representatives of the people, in contradistinction to the nobles, taken collectively are called the house of commons.
House of corrections
A prison where offenders of a particular class are confined. The term is more common in England than in the United States.
House of lords
English law. The English lords, temporal and spiritual, when taken collectively and forming a branch of the parliament, are called the House of Lords.
House of refuge
Punishment. The name given to a prison for juvenile delinquents. These houses are regulated in the United Statees on the most humane principles, by special local laws.
House of representatives
Government. The popular branch of the legislature.
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