Legal Term Dictionary

Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or principal source of a stream. -Head money. A sum of money reckoned at a fixed amount for each head (person) in a designated class. Particularly (1) a capitation or poll tax. (2) A bounty offered by the laws of the United States for More...

Chief; leading; principal; the upper part or principal source of a stream. -Head money. A sum of money reckoned at a fixed amount for each head (person) in a designated class. Particularly (1) a capitation or poll tax. (2) A bounty offered by the laws of the United States for each person on board an enemy's ship or vessel, at the commencement of a naval engagement, which shall be sunk or destroyed by a ship or vessel of the United States of equal or inferior force, the same to be divided among the officers and crew in the same manner as prise money. In re Farragut, 7 D. C 97. A similar reward is offered by the British statutes. (3) The tax or duty imposed by act of congress of Aug. 3, 1882, on owners of steamships and sailing vessels for every immigrant brought into the United States. Head Money Cases, 112 U. S. 580, 5 Sup. Ct. 247, 28 L. Ed. 798. (4) A bounty or reward paid to one who pursues and kills a bandit or outlaw and produces his head as evidence; the offer of such a reward being popularly called "nutting a price on his head."-Bead of ereeh. This term means the source of the longest branch, unless general reputation has given the appellation to another, Davis v. Bryant 2 Bibb (Ky.) 110.-Head of department. In the constitution and laws of the United States, the heads of departments are the officers at the head of the great executive departments of government (commonly called "tne cabinet") such as the secretary of state, secretary of the interior, attorney general, postmaster general, and so on, not including heads of bureaus. U. S. v. Mouatt. 124 U. S. 303, 8 Sup. Ct 505, 31 L Ed. 463; U. S. v. Germaine, 99 U. S. 511, 25 L. Ed. 482.-Head of a family. A term used in homestead and exemption laws to designate a person who maintains a family; a householder. Not necessarily a husband or father, but any person who bas charge of, supervises, and manages the affairs of the house-old or the collective body of persons residing together and constituting the family. See Duncan v. Frank, 8 Mo. App. 289; Jarboe v. Jarboe. 106 Mo. App. 459, 79 S. W. 1163; Wha-len v. Cadman. 11 Iowa. 227: Brokaw v. Ogle, 170 111. 115, 48 N. B. 394; Bennett v. Georgia Trust Co., 106 Ga. 578. 32 S. Et 625.-Head of stream. The highest point on the stream which furnishes a continuous stream of water, not necessarily the longest fork or prong. Uhl v. Reynolds, 64 S. W. 498. 23 Ky. Law Rep. 759; State v. Coleman, 13 N. J. Law, 104.- Head of water. In hydraulic engineering, mining, etc., the effective force of a body or volume of water, expressed in terms of the vertical distance from the level of the water in the pond, reservoir, dam, or other source of supply, to the point where it is to be mechanically applied, or expressed in terms of the pressure of the water per square inch at the latter point. See Shearer v. Middleton. 88 Mich. 621. 50 N. W. 737: Cargill v. Thompson, 57 Minn. 534, 59 N. W. 638. Less...

In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty con-stableship was created, united with that office.

In Saxon law. The head or chief officer of a borough; chief of the frankpledge tithing or decennary. This office was afterwards, when the petty con-stableship was created, united with that office. Less...

Certain tribunals in Scotland, abolished by 20 Geo. II. c. 50. Ersk. 1, 4, 5.

Certain tribunals in Scotland, abolished by 20 Geo. II. c. 50. Ersk. 1, 4, 5. Less...

In old English law. A narrow piece of unplowed land left at the end of a plowed field for the turning of the plow. Called, also, "butt."

In old English law. A narrow piece of unplowed land left at the end of a plowed field for the turning of the plow. Called, also, "butt." Less...

A syllabus to a reported case; a summary of the points decided in the case, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report

A syllabus to a reported case; a summary of the points decided in the case, which is placed at the head or beginning of the report Less...

An exaction of 40d. or more, collected by the sheriff of Northumberland from the people of that county twice iu every seven years, without account to the king. Abolished in 1444. Cowell.

An exaction of 40d. or more, collected by the sheriff of Northumberland from the people of that county twice iu every seven years, without account to the king. Abolished in 1444. Cowell. Less...

In the laws of the republic of Texas, a certificate issued under authority of an act of 1839, which provided that every person immigrate lng to the republic between October 1, 1837, and January 1, 1840, who was the head of a family and actually resided within the government with More...

In the laws of the republic of Texas, a certificate issued under authority of an act of 1839, which provided that every person immigrate lng to the republic between October 1, 1837, and January 1, 1840, who was the head of a family and actually resided within the government with his or her family should be entitled to a grant of 640 acres of land, to be held under such a certificate for three years, and then conveyed by absolute deed to the settler, if in the mean time he had resided permanently within the republic and performed all the duties required of citizens. Cannon v. Vaughan, 12 Tex. 401; Turner v. Hart 10 Tex. 441. Less...

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems uncertain.

In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems uncertain. Less...

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court.

In Saxon law. A court-baron; an ecclesiastical court. Less...

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell.

In Saxon law. A sort of pillory, by which the head of the culprit was caught between two boards, as feet are caught in a pair of stocks. Cowell. Less...