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  • HARD MONEY
    Lawful coined money. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 536.
  • HARDHEIDIS
    In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three half-pence. 1 Pltc Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.
  • HARDSHIP
    The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bear upon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction, which is otherwise termed the "argument ab inconvenienti."
  • HARMLESS ERROR
    See ERROR.
  • HARNASCA
    In old European law. The defensive armor of a man; harness. Spelman.
  • HARNESS
    All warlike instruments; also the tackle or furniture of a ship.
  • HARO, HARRON
    Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cowell,
  • HARRIOTT
    The old form of "herlot," (q. v.) Williams, Seis. 203.
  • HART
    A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete.
  • HASP AND STAPLE
    In old Scotch law. The form of entering an heir in a subject situated within a royal borough. It consisted of the heir's taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door, (which was the symbol of possession,) with other formalities. Bell; Burrill.
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