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  • HINE, OR HIND
    In old English law. A husbandry servant.
  • HINEFARE
    In old English law. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday.
  • HIPOTECA
    In Spanish law. A mortgage of real property.
  • HIRCISCUNDA
    See HERCISCUNDA.
  • HIRE
    v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See HIRING. To engage in service for a stipulated reward, as to hire a servant for a year, or laborers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary More...
  • HIRE
    n. Compensation for the use of a thing, or for labor or services. Carr v. State, 50 Ind. 180; Learned-Letcher Lumber Co. v. Fowler, 109 Ala. 169, 19 South. 396.
  • HIREMAN
    A subject Du Cange.
  • HIRER
    One who hires a thing, or the labor or services of another person. Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 I R. A. 262.
  • HIRING
    Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the enjoyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant, during a certain time, for a stipulated compensation, or where one contracts for the labor or services of another More...
  • HIRST, HURST
    In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt 4b.
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