Legal Term Dictionary

A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co. 80 Mich. 491, 45 N. W. 351; Cogan v. Cook, 22 Minn. 142; Dart v. Barbour, 32 Mich. 272. Used More...

A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co. 80 Mich. 491, 45 N. W. 351; Cogan v. Cook, 22 Minn. 142; Dart v. Barbour, 32 Mich. 272. Used in law in various compound terms, in substantially the same sense, as follows: -Half blood. See BLOOD.-Half-brother, half-sister. Persons who have the same father, but different mothers; or the same mother, but different fathers. Wood v. Mitcham, 92 N. Y. 379 ; In re Weiss' Estate, 1 Montg. Co. Law Rep'r (Pa.) 210.-Half-cent. A copper coin of the United States, of the value of five mills, and of the weight of ninety-four grains. The coinage of these was discontinued In 1857.-Half defense. See DEFENSE.-Half-dime. A silver (now nickel) coin of the United States, of the value of five cents.- Half-dollar. A silver coin of the United States, of the value of fifty cents, or one-half the value of a dollar.-Half-eagle. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of five dollars.-Half-endeal. A moiety, or half of a thing.-Half-kines;. In Saxon law. Half-king, (semi-rew.) A title given to the aldermen of all England. Crabb, Ens. Law, 28; Spelman.-Half-mark. A noble, or six shillings and eight pence in English money.-Half pilotage. Compensation for services which a pilot has put himself in readiness to perform, by labor, risk,' and cost, and has offered tp perform, at half the rate he would have received if the services had actually been performed. Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 0. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158.-Half-proof. In the civil law. Proof by one witness, or a private instrument. Hallifax, Civil Law, b. 8, c. 9, no. 25: 3 Bl. Comm. 370. Cr prima facie proof, which yet was not sufficient to found a sentence or decree.-Half-seal. That which was formerly used in the English chancery for sealing of commissions to delegates, upon any appeal to the court of delegates, either in ecclesiastical or marine causes.-Half section. In American land law. The half of a section of land according to the divisions of the government survey, laid off either by a north-and-south or by an east-and-west line, and containing 320 acres. See Brown v. Hardin, 21 Ark. 324.-Half-timer. A child who, by tbe operation of the English factory and education acts, is employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he may attend some "recognized efficient school." See factory and workshop act, 1878, S 23: elementary education act. 1876, | 11.-Half-tongue. A jury half of one tongue or nationality and half of another. See DE MEDIETATE LiNGUiB.-Half-year. In legal computation. The period of one hundred and eighty-two days; the odd hours being rejected. Co. Litt. 1355; Cro. Jac 166; Yel. 100: 1 Steph. Comm. 265; Pol. Code CaL 1903, f 3257. Less...

A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the Infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where anciently this form of private justice was practised by the free burghers in the case More...

A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the Infliction of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where anciently this form of private justice was practised by the free burghers in the case of persons accused of stealing; also called "gibbet law." Less...

In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, (conventus aulas,) that is, a lord's court; a court of a manor, or court-baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen met, and Justice was administered. Crabb, Eng. Law, 26.

In Saxon law. The meeting of a hall, (conventus aulas,) that is, a lord's court; a court of a manor, or court-baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen met, and Justice was administered. Crabb, Eng. Law, 26. Less...

In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Wharton.

In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Wharton. Less...

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc. In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion-house. Cowell.

A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc. In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion-house. Cowell. Less...

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market for such commodities as were Tended In the common hall of the place. Cowell; Blount.

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market for such commodities as were Tended In the common hall of the place. Cowell; Blount. Less...

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the flrst occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49 ; 5, 20, 50.

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the flrst occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49 ; 5, 20, 50. Less...

In Saxon law. Haligemot, (q. v.)

In Saxon law. Haligemot, (q. v.) Less...

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbid error either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; a psychological state, such as would be produced naturally by an act of sense-perception, attributed confidently, but mistakenly, to something which More...

In medical jurisprudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbid error either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; a psychological state, such as would be produced naturally by an act of sense-perception, attributed confidently, but mistakenly, to something which has no objective existence ; as, when the patient imagines that he sees an object when there is none, or hears a voice or other sound when nothing strikes his ear. See Staples v. Wellington, 58 Me. 459; Foster v. Dlckerson, 64 Vt. 233, 24 Atl. 257; McNett v. Cooper (C. C.) 13 Fed. 590; People v. Krlst, 168 N. Y. 19, 60 N. E. 1057. Hallucination does not by itself constitute insanity, though it may be evidence of it or a sign of its approach. It is to be distinguished from "delusion" in this, that the latter is a fixed and irrational belief in the existence of a fact or state of facts, not cognizable through the senses, but to be determined by the faculties of reason, memory, judgment, and the like; while hallucination is a belief in tbe existence of an external object, perceptible by tbe senses, but having no real existence; or, in so far as a delusion may relate to an external object, it is an irrational belief as to the character, nature, or appearance of something which really exists and affects the senses. For example, if a man should believe that he saw his right hand in its proper place, after it had been amputated, it would be an hallucination; but if he believed that his right hand was made of glass, it would be a delusion. In other words, in the case of hallucination, the senses betray the mind, while in the case of delusion, the senses act normally, but their evidence is rejected by the mind on account of the existence of an irrational belief formed independently of them. They are further distinguished by the fact that hallucinations may be observed and studied by the subject himself and traced to their causes, or may be corrected by reasoning or argument, while a delusion is an unconscious error, but so fixed and unchangeable that the patient cannot be reasoned out of it. Hallucination is also to be distinguished from "illusion." the latter term being appropriate to describe a perverted or distorted or wholly mistaken impression in the mind, derived from a true act of sense-perception, stimulated by a real external object, but modified by the imagination of the subject; while, in the case of hallucination, as above stated, there is no objective reality to correspond with the imagined perception. Less...

See HALIGEMOT.

See HALIGEMOT. Less...