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  • HENCEFORTH
    A word of futurity, which, as employed in legal documents, statutes, and the like, always imports a continuity of action or condition from the present time forward, but excludes all the past. Thomson v. American Surety Co., 170 N. Y. 109, 62 N. E. 1073; Opinion of Chief Justice, 7 More...
  • HENCHMAN
    A page; an attendant; a herald. See Barnes v. State, 88 Md. 347, 41 Atl. 781.
  • HENEDPENNY
    A customary payment of money instead of hens at Christmas; a composition for eggs. Cowell.
  • HENFARE
    A fine for flight on account of murder. Domesday Book.
  • HENGHEN
    In Saxon law. A prison, a gaol, or house of correction.
  • HENGWYTE
    Sax. In old English law. An acquittance from a fine for hanging a thief. Fleta, lib. 1, c 47, | 17.
  • HENRICUS VETUS
    Henry the Old, or Elder. King Henry I. is so called in ancient English chronicles and charters, to distinguish him from the subsequent kings of that name. Spelman.
  • HEORDFAETE, OR HUDEFAEST
    In Saxon law. A master of a family, keeping house, distinguished from a lower class of freemen, via., folgeras, (folgarii,) who had no habitations of their own, but were house-retainers of their lords.
  • HEORDPENNY
    Peter-pence, (q. v.)
  • HEORDWERCH
    In Saxon law. The service of herdsmen, done at the will of their lord.
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