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  • HERCIA
    A harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, a 77.
  • HERCIARE
    To harrow. 4 Inst 270.
  • HERCIATURA
    In old English law. Harrowing; work with a harrow. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 82, J 2.
  • HERCISCUNDA
    In the civil law. To "be divided. Familia herciscunda, an inheritance to be divided. Actio families herciscunda, an action for dividing an inheritance. Erciscunda is more commonly used in the civil law. Dig. 10, 2; Inst 3, 28, 4; Id. 4, 6, 20.
  • HERD
    n. An indefinite number, more than a few, of cattle, sheep, horses, or other animals of the larger sorts, assembled and kept together as one drove and under one care and management Brim v. Jones, 18 Utah, 440, 45 Pac. 352.
  • HERD
    v. To tend, take care of, manage, and control a herd of cattle or other animals, implying something more than merely driving them from place to place. Phlppa v. Grover, 9 Idaho, 415, 75 Pac. 65; Fry v. Hubner, 35 Or. 184, 57 Pac 420.
  • HERDER
    One who herds or has charge of a herd of cattle, in the senses above defined. See Hooker v. McAllister, 12 Wash. 46, 40 Pac. 617; Underwood v. Birdsell, 6 Mont 142, 9 Pac. 922; Rev. Codes N. D. 1899, | 1544a.
  • HERDEWICH
    A grange or place for cattle or husbandry. Mon. Angl. pt 8.
  • HERDWERCH, HEORDWERCH
    Herdsmen's work, or customary labor, done by shepherds and inferior tenants, at the will of the lord. Cowel.
  • HEREAFTER
    A word of futurity, always used in statutes and legal documents as indicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past Chapman v. Holmes, 10 N. J. Law, 26; Tremont A S. Mills v. Lowell, 165 Mass. 265, 42 N. E. 1184; Dobbins v. Cragin, 50 N. J. More...
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