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  • HORDEUM
    In old records. Barley. Hordeum palmate, beer barley, as distinguished from common barley, which was called "hordeum quadragesimale." Blount.
  • HORN
    In old Scotch practice. A kind of trumpet used in denouncing contumacious persons rebels and outlaws, which was done with three blasts of the horn by the king's sergeant. This was called "putting to the horn;" and the party so denounced was said to be "at the horn." Bell. See More...
  • HORN-BOOK
    A primer; a book explaining the rudiments of any science or branch of knowledge. The phrase "hornbook law" is a colloquial designation of the rudiments or most familiar principles of law.
  • HORN TENURE
    In old English law. Tenure by cornage; that is, by the service of winding a horn when the Scots or other enemies entered the land, in order to warn the king's subjects. This was a species of grand serjeanty. Litt | 156; 2 Bl. Comm. 74.
  • HORN WITH HORN, OR HORN UNDER HORN
    The promiscuous feeding of bulls and cows or all horned beasts that are allowed to run together upon the same common. Spelman.
  • HORNGELD
    Sax. In old English law. A tax within a forest, paid for horned beasts. Cowell; Blount
  • HORNING
    In Scotch law. "Letters of horning" is the name given to a judicial process issuing on the decree of a court, by which the debtor is summoned to perform his obligation in terms of the decree, the consequence of his failure to do so being liability to arrest and Imprisonment More...
  • HORREUM
    Lat A place for keeping grain; a granary. A place for keeping fruits, wines, and goods generally; a store-house. Calvin.; Bract foL 48.
  • HORS
    L. Fr. Out; out of; without. -Hors de son foe. Out of his fee. In old pleading, this was the name of a plea in an action for rent or services, by which the defendant alleged that the land in question was out of the compass of the plaintiff s More...
  • HORS WEALH
    In old English law. The wealh, or Briton who had care of the king's horses.
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