In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The lnnd on which such grain was sown. The grain It-self; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell
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A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence
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Councll; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from belng held within a building, at a time -when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local court The county oourt in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, winchester, Lincoln, and in other pla-ces similar to the London hustings. Also the raised place from which candidates for seats in parliament address the constituency, on the occasion of their nomination, whartpn
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He who holds house and land. Bract L 3, L 2, c. 10
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In oid records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount
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In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 308
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In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. Spelman
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In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 35b
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Agriculture; cultivation of the Soil for1 food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 516 ; McCue v. Tunstead, 65 Cal. 506, 4 Pac. 510
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A married man; one who has a lawful wlfe living. The correlative of “wife
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A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word “farmer” is colloquially used as synonymous with “hus-bandmnn,” but originally meant a tenant who cultivates leased ground
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In Spanish law. Theft white. New Recop. b. 2, tit 20
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In such phrases as “to the hurt or annoyance of another,” or “hurt, molest-ed, or restrained in his person or estate,” this word is not restricted to physical in-juries, but Includes also mental pain, as well as discomfort or annoyance. See Row-land v. Miller (Super. N. Y.) 15 N. Y. Supp. 702; Pronk v. Brooklyn Heights R. Co., 68 App. Div. 390, 74 N. T. Supp. 375; Thurston v. whitney, 2 Cush. (Mass.) 110
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In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution.
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A storm of great violence or intensity, of which the particular characteristic is the high velocity of the wind. There is naturally no exact measure to distinguish between an ordinary storm and a hurricane, bnt the wind should reach a velocity of at least 50 or 60 miles an hour to be called by the latter name, or, os expressed in some of the cases, it should be sufficient to “throw down buildings.” A hurricane is properly a circular storm in the nature of a cyclone. See Pelican Ins. Cb. v. Troy Co-op. Ass’n, 77 Tex. 225, 13 S. W. 980; Queen Ins. Co. v. Hudnut Co., 8 Ind. App. 22, 35 N. B. 397; Tyson v. Union Mut Fire A Storm Co., 2 Montg. Co. Law Rep’r (Pa.) 17
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A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree npon any verdict
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DOR, or HUN-DREDES MAN. The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst Eng
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In English law. The Inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, an-ciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court Persons impaneled or fit to be lm-paneled upon juries, dwelling wlthln the hundred where the cause of action arose. Cromp. Jur. 217. It was formerly necessary to have some of these upon every panel of jurors. 3 BL Comm.’ 859, 360 ; 4 Steph. Comm. 370
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In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given to the chief officer of a hundred, as weil as to the freeholders who composed it Spel. voc. “H undr edits
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The chief or presiding officer of a hundred
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