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  • HOC QUIDEM PERQUAM DURUM EST, SED ITA LEX SCRIPTA EST
    Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law Is written; such is the written or positive law.) An observation quoted by Black-stone as used by Ulpian in the civil law; and applied to cases where courts of equity have no power to abate the rigor of the law. More...
  • HOC PARATUS EST VERIFICARE
    Lat. This he is ready to verify. Hoo serrabitur qnod initio convcnit. This shall be preserved which is useful in the beginning. Dig. 50, 17, 23; Bract 73b.
  • HOCCUS SALTIS
    A hoke, hole, or lesser pit of salt. Cowell.
  • HOCK-TUESDAY MONEY
    This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants and bondmen might solemnize the day on which the English conquered the Danes, being the second Tuesday after Easter week. Cowell.
  • HOCKETTOR, OR HOCQUETEUR
    A knight of the post; a decayed man; a basket carrier. Cowell.
  • HODGE-PODGE ACT
    A name applied to a statute which comprises a medley of incongruous subjects.
  • HOGA
    In old English law. A hill or mountain. In old English, a koto. Orene hoga, Grenehow. Domesday; Spelman.
  • HOGASTER
    In old English law. A sheep of the second year. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 79, ss 4, 12. A young hog. Cowell.
  • HOGGUS, OR HOGIETUS
    A hog or swine. Cowell.
  • HOGHENHYNE
    In Saxon law. A house-servant Any stranger who lodged three nights or more at a man's house in a decennary was called "haghenhyne," and his host became responsible for his acts as for those of his servant.
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