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  • HAPPINESS
    The constitutional right of men to pursue their "happiness" means the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, In any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity, or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their highest enjoyment. Butchers' Union More...
  • HAQUE
    In old statutes. A hand-gun, about three-quarters of a yard long.
  • HARACIUM
    In old English law. A race of horses and mares kept for breed; a stud. Spelman.
  • HARBINGER
    In England, an officer of the royal household.
  • HARBOR
    v. To receive clandestinely and without lawful authority a person for the purpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful custody of such person shall be deprived of the same. Jones v. Van Zandt, 5 How. 215, 227, 12 L. Ed. 122. A distinction has More...
  • HARBOR
    n. A haven, or a space ot deep water so sheltered by the adjacent land as to afford a safe anchorage for ships. Rowe v. Smith, 51 Conn. 271, 50 Am. Hep. 16; The Auranla (D. C.) 29 Fed. 103; People v. Kirsch, 67 Mich. 539, 35 N. W. 157. More...
  • HARD LABOR
    A punishment, additional to mere imprisonment, sometimes imposed upon convicts sentenced to a penitentiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harder than ordinary mechanical labor. Brown v. State, 74 Ala. 483.
  • HARD MONEY
    Lawful coined money. Henry v. Bank of Salina, 5 Hill (N. Y.) 523, 536.
  • HARDHEIDIS
    In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three half-pence. 1 Pltc Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note.
  • HARDSHIP
    The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bear upon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction, which is otherwise termed the "argument ab inconvenienti."
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