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  • HEALER
    One who heals or cures; specifically, one who professes to cure bodily diseases without medicine or any material means, according to the tenets and practices of so-called "Christian Science," whose beliefs and practices, being founded on their religious convictions, are not per se proof of insanity. In re Brush's Will, More...
  • HEALING ACT
    Another name for a curative act or statute. See Lockbart v. Troy, 48 Ala. 584.
  • HEALTH
    Freedom from sickness or suffering. The right to the enjoyment of health is a subdivision of the right of personal security, one of the absolute rights of persons. 1 Bl. Comm. 129, 134. As to injuries affecting health, see 3 Bl. Comm. 122. -Bill of health. See BILL.-Board of health. More...
  • HEALTHY
    Free from disease or bodily ailment, or any state of the system peculiarly susceptible or liable to disease or bod^ ily ailment Bell v. Jeffreys, 35 N. C. 356. V
  • HEARING
    In equity practice. The hearing of the arguments of the counsel for the parties upon tbe pleadings, or pleadings and proofs; corresponding to the trial of an action at law. The word "hearing" has an established meaning as applicable to equity cases. It means the same thing in those cases More...
  • HEARSAY
    A term applied to that species of testimony given by a witness who relates, not what he knows personally, but what others have told him, or what he has heard said by others. Hopt v. Utah, 110 U. S. 574, 4 Sup. Ct 202, 28 L. Ed. 262; Morell v. More...
  • HEARTH MONEY
    A tax levied iu England by St. 14 Car. II. c. 10. consisting of two shillings on every hearth or stove in the kingdom. It was extremely unpopular, and was abolished by 1 W. A M. St 1, c. 10. This tax was otherwise called "chimney money."
  • HEARTH SILVER
    In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323. 326.
  • HEAT OF PASSION
    In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter. A state of mind contradistinguished from a cool state of the blood. State v. Wieners, 66 Mo. More...
  • HEAVE TO
    In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel's headway by bringing her head "into the wind," that is, in the direction from which the wind blows. A steamer is said to be "hove to" when held in such a position that she takes the heaviest seas upon More...
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