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  • HUSBANDRY
    Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 516; McCue v. Tunstead, 65 Cal. 506, 4 Pac. 510.
  • HUSBREC
    In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 308.
  • HUSCARLE
    In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. Spelman. A king's vassal, thane, or baron; an earl's man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrence in Domesday Book.
  • HUSFASTNE
    He who holds house and land. Bract. L 3, t 2, c. 10.
  • HUSGABLUM
    In old records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount.
  • HUSH-MONEY
    A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence.
  • HUSTINGS
    Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within a building, at a time when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local court The county court In the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, Winchester, Lincoln, and in other More...
  • HUTESIUM ET CLAMOR
    Hue and cry. See HUE AND CRY.
  • HUTILAN
    Taxes. Mon. Angl. i. 586.
  • HWATA, HWATUNG
    In old English law. Augury; divination.
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