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  • HABERE FACIAS VISUM
    Lat. That you cause to have a view. A writ to cause the sheriff to take a view of lands or tenements.
  • HABERE LICERE
    Lat. In Roman law. To allow [one] to have [possession.] This phrase denoted the duty of the seller of property to allow the purchaser to have the possession and enjoyment. For a breach of this duty, an actio ex empto might be maintained.
  • HABERJECTS
    A cloth of a mixed color. Magna Charta, c. 26.
  • HABETO TIBI RES TUAS
    Lat. Have or take your effects to yourself. One of the old Roman forms of divorcing a wife. Calvin.
  • HABILIS
    Lat. Fit; suitable; active; useful, (of a servant.) Proved; authentic, (of Book of Saints.) Fixed; stable, (of authority of the king.) Du Cange.
  • HABIT
    A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a usual repetition of the same act or function. Knickerbocker L. Ins. Co. v. Foley, 105 U. S. 354, 26 L. Ed. 1055; Conner v. Citizens' St. R. Co., 146 Ind. 430, 45 N. E. 662; State More...
  • HABITABLE REPAIR
    A covenant by a lessee to "put the premises into habitable repair" binds him to put them into such a state that they may be occupied, not only with safety, but with reasonable comfort, for tbe purposes for which they are taken. Miller v. McCardell, 19 R. I. 304, 33 More...
  • HABITANCY
    Settled dwelling in a given place; fixed and permanent residence there. This term is more comprehensive than "domicile," for one may be domiciled in a given place though he does not spend the greater portion of his time there, or though he may be absent for long periods. It is More...
  • HABITANT
    Fr. In French and Canadian law. A resident tenant; a settler; a tenant who kept hearth and home on the seigniory.
  • HABITATIO
    Lat. In the civil law. The right of dwelling; the right of free residence in another's house. Inst 2, 5; Dig. 7, 8.
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