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Hurdle
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HurdleEnglish law. A species of sledge, used to draw traitors to execution.
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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.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
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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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Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
Husband-wife privilege
A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law. While this privilege may have been varied in some states, it has always been held to be lifted where one spouse commits a crime on the other. Similar to the client-solicitor privilege.
Husbrece
Old English law. The, ancient name of the offence now called burglary.
Hustings
English law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city.
Hydrometer
An instrument for measuring the density of fluids; being immersed in fluids, as in water, brine, beer, brandy it determines the proportion of their densities, or their specific gravities, and thence their qualities.
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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.
Execution
1) Contracts. The accomplishment of a thing; as the execution of a bond and warrant of attorney, which is the signing, sealing, and delivery of the same. 2) Criminal law. The putting a convict to death, agreeably to law, in pursuance of his sentence.
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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.
Hurdle
Husband
Maritime law. The name of an agent who is authorized to make the necessary repairs to a ship, and to act in relation to the ship, generally, for the owner. He is usually called ship's hushand.
Husband-wife privilege
A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law. While this privilege may have been varied in some states, it has always been held to be lifted where one spouse commits a crime on the other. Similar to the client-solicitor privilege.
Husbrece
Old English law. The, ancient name of the offence now called burglary.
Hustings
English law. The name of a court held before the lord mayor and aldermen of London; it is the principal and supreme court of the city.
Hydrometer
An instrument for measuring the density of fluids; being immersed in fluids, as in water, brine, beer, brandy it determines the proportion of their densities, or their specific gravities, and thence their qualities.
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