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In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The lnnd on which such grain was sown. […]

Hue and cry. See Hui ano Cbt Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Taxes. Mon. Angl. 1. 586 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Councll; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from belng held within a building, at a time -when other courts were held in the […]

He who holds house and land. Bract L 3, L 2, c. 10 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In oid records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 308 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. Spelman Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 35b Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Agriculture; cultivation of the Soil for1 food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. […]

A married man; one who has a lawful wlfe living. The correlative of “wife Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word “farmer” is colloquially used as synonymous with “hus-bandmnn,” but originally meant […]

DUS, or HORTUS. A ram or Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In Spanish law. Theft white. New Recop. b. 2, tit 20 Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

HYRST, HERST, or HIRST Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In such phrases as “to the hurt or annoyance of another,” or “hurt, molest-ed, or restrained in his person or estate,” this […]

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons were drawn to the place of execution. Source: Black’s Law […]

A storm of great violence or intensity, of which the particular characteristic is the high velocity of the wind. There is naturally […]

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree npon any verdict Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

A domestic; one of a family Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

DOR, or HUN-DREDES MAN. The presiding officer in the hundred court Anc. Inst Eng Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

In English law. The Inhabitants or freeholders of a hundred, an-ciently the suitors or judges of the hundred court Persons impaneled or […]

In old English law. A hundredary or hundredor. A name given to the chief officer of a hundred, as weil as to […]

The chief or presiding officer of a hundred Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)