A bulldlug or room of conslder-able size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc
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In old Engllsh law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob
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In Saxon law. The meeting of a ball, (conventus aulce,) that is, a lord’s court; a court of a manor, or court-baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen met, and jus-tice was administered. Crabb, Eng. Law, 26
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In English law. The feast of All Sainis, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was computed from Hallmas to Candlemas, whar-ton
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A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec. 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co., 80 Mich. 491, 45 N. W. 351; Cogan v. Cook, 22 Minn. 142; Dart v. Barbour, 32 Mlch. 272. Used in law in various compound terms, in substantially the same sense, as follows
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A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trlal of a person accused of crime and the lnfllc-tlon of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where an-dently this form of private Justlce was prac-tlsed by the free burghers in tHe case of per-sons accused of stealing; also called “gibbet law.”
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In Scotch law. The crime of assaulting a person in his own house. Belt
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In old Engllsh law. A permission or lioerty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount
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A hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne. St 2 & 3 Edw
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In Roman law. The heir, or universal successor in the event of death. The helr is he who actively or passively suc-eeeds to the entire property of the estate-leaver. He is not only the successor to the rights and claims, but also to the estate-leav-er’s debts, and in relation to his estate is to be regarded as the Identical person of the estate-leaver, inasmuch as he represents him in all hls active and passive relations to his estate. Mackeld. Rom. Law, $ 651
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Lat. In old English law. A seeker of an Inheritance; hence, the next heir to lands
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An ancient wrlt that lay for the ravishment ot the lord’s ward. Reg. orlg. 163
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Lat in the clvll law. Heirs. The plural of ftaeres, (q. v
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An anclent writ that lay for the lord, who, bavlng by right the wardship of bis tenant under age, could not obtaln his person, the same being carried
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In Gothlc law. A tribunal answering to the Engllsh court-leet
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