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Huissier
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HuissierAn usher of a court. In France, an officer of this name performs many of the duties which in this country devolve on the sheriff or constable.
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Usher
This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Constable
A person who is given the legal right to serve process.
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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.""
Hovel
A place used by hushandmen to set their ploughs, carts, and other farming utensils, out of the rain and sun. Law Latin Dict. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.
Hoyman
The master or captain of a hoy.
Hue and cry
English law. A mode of pursuing felons, or such as have dangerously wounded any person, or assaulted any one with intent to rob him, by the constable, for the purpose of arresting the offender.
Huebra
Spanish law. An acre of land or as much as can be ploughed in a day by two oxen.
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Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
Hundred gemote
The name of a court among the Saxons. It was holden every month, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the hundred.
Hundredors
In England they are inhabitants of a local division of a county, who, by several statutes, are held to be liable in the cases therein specified, to make good the loss sustained by persons within the hundred, by robbery or other violence, therein also specified.
Hung jury
A jury is required to make a unanimous or near unanimous verdict. When the jurors, after full debate and discussion, are unable to agree on a verdict and are deadlocked with differences of opinion that appear to be irreconcilable, it is said to be a "hung jury". The result is a mistrial.
Hunting
The act of pursuing and taking wild animals; the chase.
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Usher
This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law
Court
A body in government to which the administration of justice is delegated.
Name
One or more words used to distinguish a particular individual, as Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
Duties
In its most enlarged sense, this word is nearly equivalent to taxes, embracing all impositions or charges levied on persons or things; in its more restrained sense, it is often used as equivalent to customs or imposts.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
Sheriff
The name of the chief officer of the county. In Latin he is called vice comes, because in England he represented the comes or earl. His name is said to be derived from the Saxon seyre, shire or county, and reve, keeper, bailiff, or guardian.
Constable
A person who is given the legal right to serve process.
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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.""
Hovel
A place used by hushandmen to set their ploughs, carts, and other farming utensils, out of the rain and sun. Law Latin Dict. A shed; a cottage; a mean house.
Hoyman
The master or captain of a hoy.
Hue and cry
English law. A mode of pursuing felons, or such as have dangerously wounded any person, or assaulted any one with intent to rob him, by the constable, for the purpose of arresting the offender.
Huebra
Spanish law. An acre of land or as much as can be ploughed in a day by two oxen.
Huissier
Hundred
English law. A district of country originally comprehending one hundred families. In many cases, when an offence is committed within the -hundred, the inhabitants tire civilly responsible to the party injured.
Hundred gemote
The name of a court among the Saxons. It was holden every month, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the hundred.
Hundredors
In England they are inhabitants of a local division of a county, who, by several statutes, are held to be liable in the cases therein specified, to make good the loss sustained by persons within the hundred, by robbery or other violence, therein also specified.
Hung jury
A jury is required to make a unanimous or near unanimous verdict. When the jurors, after full debate and discussion, are unable to agree on a verdict and are deadlocked with differences of opinion that appear to be irreconcilable, it is said to be a "hung jury". The result is a mistrial.
Hunting
The act of pursuing and taking wild animals; the chase.
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