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  • HAUBER
    O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman.
  • HAUGH, OR HOWGH
    A green plot in a valley.
  • HAUL
    The use of this word, instead of the statutory word "carry" in an indictment charging that the defendant "did feloniously steal, take, and haul away" certain personalty, will not render the indictment bad, the words being in one sense equivalent. Spittorff v. State, 108 Ind. 171, 8 N. E. 911.
  • HAUR
    In old English law. Hatred. Leg. Wm. I. c. 16 ; Blount.
  • HAUSTUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to draw water from another's well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well or spring,) so far as it is necessary, is tacitly included. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law, s More...
  • HAUT CHEMIN
    L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.
  • HAUT ESTRET
    L. Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2.
  • HAUTHONER
    In old English law. A man armed with a coat of mail. Jacob.
  • HAVE
    Lat. A form of the salutatory expression "Ave," used in the titles of some of the constitutions of the Theodoslan and Justlnianean codes. See Cod. 7, 62, 9; Id. 9, 2, 11.
  • HAVE
    To possess corporally. "No one, at common law, was said to have or to be in possession of land, unless it were conveyed to him by the livery of seisin, which gave him the corporal investiture and bodily occupation thereof." BL Law Tracts, 113. -Hare and hold. A common phrase More...
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