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  • HEYLODE
    In old records. A customary burden upon inferior tenants, for mending or repairing hays or hedges.
  • HEYMECTUS
    A hay-net; a net for catching conies. Cowell.
  • HIBERNAGIUM
    The season for sowing winter corn. CowelL
  • HIDAGE
    An extraordinary tax formerly payable to the crown for every hide of land. This taxation was levied, not in money, but provision of armor, etc Cowell.
  • HIDALGO
    In Spanish law. A noble; a person entitled to the rights of nobility. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from good situations in life, (de buenos lugures,) and possessed, of property, (algo.) White, New Recop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 1.
  • HIDALGUIA
    In Spanish law. Nobility by descent or lineage. White, New Recop. b, 1, tit 5, c 8, s 4.
  • HIDE
    In old English law. A measure of land, being as much as could be worked with one plow. It is variously estimated at from 60 to 100 acres, but was probably determined by local usage. Another meaning was as much land as would support one family or the dwellers in More...
  • HIDEL
    In old English law. A place of protection; a sanctuary. St 1 Hen. VII. cc 5, 6; Cowell.
  • HIDGILD
    A sum of money paid by a villein or servant to save himself from a whipping. Fleta, L 1, c 47, I 20.
  • HIERARCHY
    Originally, government by a body of priests. Now, the body of officers in any church or ecclesiastical institution, considered as forming an ascending series of ranks or degrees of power and authority, with the correlative subjection, each to the one next above. Derivatively, any body of men, taken in their More...
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