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  • HINDENI HOMINES
    A society of men. The Saxons ranked men into three classes, and valued them, as to. satisfaction for injuries, etc., according to their class. The highest class were valued at 1,200s., and were called "twelf hindmen;" the middle class at 600s., and called "sexhindmen ;" the lowest at 200s., called More...
  • HINDER AND DELAY
    To hinder and delay is to do something which is an attempt to defraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some obstacle In the path, or interpose some time, unjustifiably, before the creditor can realize what is owed out of his debtor's property. See Walker v. Sayers, 5 Bush More...
  • HINDU LAW
    The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and administered by the government of British India.
  • HINE, OR HIND
    In old English law. A husbandry servant.
  • HINEFARE
    In old English law. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday.
  • HIPOTECA
    In Spanish law. A mortgage of real property.
  • HIRCISCUNDA
    See HERCISCUNDA.
  • HIRE
    v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See HIRING. To engage in service for a stipulated reward, as to hire a servant for a year, or laborers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary More...
  • HIRE
    n. Compensation for the use of a thing, or for labor or services. Carr v. State, 50 Ind. 180; Learned-Letcher Lumber Co. v. Fowler, 109 Ala. 169, 19 South. 396.
  • HIREMAN
    A subject Du Cange.
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