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  • HASPA
    In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of seisin might anciently be made, where there was a house on the premises.
  • HASTA
    Lat. A spear. In the Roman law, a spear was the sign of a public sale of goods or sale by auction. Hence the phrase "hastae subjicere" (to put under the spear) meant to put up at auction. Calvin. In feudal law. A spear. The symbol used In making investiture More...
  • HAT MONEY
    In maritime law. Primage ; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship.
  • HAUBER
    O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman.
  • HAUGH, OR HOWGH
    A green plot in a valley.
  • HAUL
    The use of this word, instead of the statutory word "carry" in an indictment charging that the defendant "did feloniously steal, take, and haul away" certain personalty, will not render the indictment bad, the words being in one sense equivalent. Spittorff v. State, 108 Ind. 171, 8 N. E. 911.
  • HAUR
    In old English law. Hatred. Leg. Wm. I. c. 16 ; Blount.
  • HAUSTUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A species of servitude, consisting in the right to draw water from another's well or spring, in which the iter, (right of way to the well or spring,) so far as it is necessary, is tacitly included. Dig. 8, 3, 1; Mackeld. Rom. Law, s More...
  • HAUT CHEMIN
    L. Fr. Highway. Yearb. M. 4 Hen. VI. 4.
  • HAUT ESTRET
    L. Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2.
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