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  • HEIRSHIP MOVABLES
    In Scotch law. The movables which go to the heir, and not to the executor, that the land may not go to the heir completely dismantled, such as the best of furniture, horses, cows, etc, but not fungibles. Bell.
  • HELL
    The name formerly given to a place under the exchequer chamber, where the king's debtors were confined. Rich. Dict.
  • HELM
    Thatch or straw; a covering for the head in war; a coat of arms bearing a crest; the tiller or handle of the rudder of a ship.
  • HELOWE-WALL
    The end-wall covering and defending the rest of the building. Paroch. Antiq. 573.
  • HELSING
    A Saxon brass coin, of the value of a half-penny.
  • HEMIPLEGIA
    In medical jurisprudence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one side of the body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes originating from the spinal cord, as in "Brown-Sequard's paralysis," unilateral paralysis with crossed an-ceatheaia. In the cerebral form, the hemiplegia Is sometimes "alternate" or crossed, that is, occurring More...
  • HEMOLDBORH, OR HELMELBORCH
    A title to possession. The admission of this old Norse term into the laws of the Conqueror is difficult to be accounted for; it ( is not found in any Anglo-Saxon law extant. Wharton.
  • HENCEFORTH
    A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes, and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present time forward, but excludes all the past. Thomson v. American Surety Co., 170 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 1073; Opinion of Chief Justice, 7 More...
  • HENCHMAN
    A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.
  • HENEDPENNY
    A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. Cowell.
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