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  • HORS WEARD
    In old English law. A service or corve'e, consisting in watching the horses of the lord. Anc. Inst Eng.
  • HORSE
    An animal of the genus equua and species caballus. In a narrow and strict sense, the term is applied only to the male, and only to males of four years old or thereabouts, younger horses being called "colts." But even in this sense the term includes both stallions and geldings. More...
  • HORSE GUARDS
    The directing power of the military forces of tbe kingdom of Great Britain. The commander in chief, or general commanding the forces, is at the head of this department. It is subordinate to the war office, but the relations between them are complicated. Wharton.
  • HORTUS
    Lat. In the civil law. A garden. Dig. 32, 91, 5.
  • HOSPES
    Lat. A guest 8 Coke, 32.
  • HOSPES GENERALIS
    A great chamberlain.
  • HOSPITAL
    An institution for the reception and care of sick, wounded, infirm, or aged persons; generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called "eleemosynary" or "charitable." See In re Curtiss (Sur.) 7 N. Y. Supp. 207.
  • HOSPITALLERS
    The knights of a religious order, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. All their lands and goods in England were given to the sovereign by 32 Hen. VIIL c. 24.
  • HOSPITATOR
    A host or entertainer. Hospitator communis. An innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32. Hospitator magnus. The marshal of a camp.
  • HOSPITIA
    Inns. Hospitia communis common inns. Bfig. Orig. 105. Hospitia cu-riw, inns of court Hospitia cancellarice, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 429 ; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 120.
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