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  • HEARTH SILVER
    In English law. A species of modus or composition for tithes. Anstr. 323. 326.
  • HEAT OF PASSION
    In criminal law. A state of violent and uncontrollable rage engendered by a blow or certain other provocation given, which will reduce a homicide from the grade of murder to that of manslaughter. A state of mind contradistinguished from a cool state of the blood. State v. Wieners, 66 Mo. More...
  • HEAVE TO
    In maritime parlance and admiralty law. To stop a sailing vessel's headway by bringing her head "into the wind," that is, in the direction from which the wind blows. A steamer is said to be "hove to" when held in such a position that she takes the heaviest seas upon More...
  • HEBBERMAN
    An unlawful fisher in the Thames below London bridge; so called because they generally fished at ebbing tide or water. 4 Hen. VII. c 15; Jacob.
  • HEBBERTHEF
    In Saxon law. The privilege of having the goods of a thief, and the trial of him, within a certain liberty. Gowell.
  • HEBBING-WEARS
    A device for catching fish in ebbing water. St. 23 Hen. VIII. c 5.
  • HEBDOMADIUS
    A week's man; the canon or prebendary in a cathedral church, who had the peculiar care of the choir and the offices of it for his own week. Cowell.
  • HECCAGIUM
    In feudal law. Rent paid to a lord of the fee for a liberty to use the engines called "hecks."
  • HECK
    An engine to take fish In the river Ouse. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 1.
  • HEDA
    A small haven, wharf, or landing place.
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