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Hundred
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HundredEnglish 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.
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Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
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.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
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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.
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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
An 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.
Hundred
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.
Hurdle
English law. A species of sledge, used to draw traitors to execution.
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Law
A rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society. The learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system.
District
A certain portion of the country, separated from the rest for some special purposes.
Country
By country is meant the state of which one is a member.
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.
Cases
General term for an action, cause, suit, or controversy, at law or in equity; questions contested before a court of justice.
When
1) At which time, in wills, standing by itself unqualified and unexplained, this is a word of condition denoting the time at which the gift is to continence. 2) The context of a will may show that the word when is to be applied to the possession only, not to the vesting of a legacy; but to justify this construction, there must be circumstances, or other expressions in the will, showing such to have been the testator's intent.
Offence
Crimes. The doing that which a penal law forbids to be done, or omitting to do what it commands; in this sense it is nearly synonymous with crime. In a more confined sense, it may be considered as having the same meaning with misdemeanor, but it differs from it in this, that it is not indictable, but punishable summarily by the forfeiture of a penalty.
Party
Practice, contracts. When applied to practice, by party is understood either the plaintiff or defendant. In contracts, a party is one or more persons who engage to perform or receive the performance of some agreement.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
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.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
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
An 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.
Hundred
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.
Hurdle
English law. A species of sledge, used to draw traitors to execution.
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