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  • HERIOT
    In English law. A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to the lord of the fee on the decease of the owner of the land. Heriots are divided into heriot service and heriot custom. The former expression denotes such as are due upon a special reservation in a grant More...
  • HERISCHILD
    In old English law. A species of military service, or knight's fee. Cowell.
  • HERISCHULDA
    In old Scotch law. A fine or penalty for not obeying the proclamation made for warfare. Skene.
  • HERISCINDIUM
    A division of household goods. Blount.
  • HERISLIT
    Laying down of arms. Blount Desertion from the army. Spelman.
  • HERISTAL
    The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spelman.
  • HERITABLE
    Capable of being taken by descent A , term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases. -Heritable bond. A bond for a sum of money to which is added, for further security of the creditor, a conveyance of land or heritage to be held by the More...
  • HERITAGE
    In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the subject of property; such as lands, houses, orchards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., In whatever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no. 472. In Scotch law. Land, and all property connected with More...
  • HERITOR
    In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Karnes, Eq. Pref.
  • HERMANDAD
    In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected -by men in power. Bouvier.
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