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  • HURST, HYRST, HERST, OR HIRST
    A wood or grove of trees. Co. Litt 4b.
  • HURT
    In such phrases as "to the hurt or annoyance of another," or "hart molested, or restrained in his person or estate," this word is not restricted to physical injuries, but includes also mental pain, as well as discomfort or annoyance. See Rowland v. Miller (Super. N. Y.) 15 N. Y. More...
  • HURTARDUS, OR HURTUS
    A ram or wether.
  • HURTO
    In Spanish law. Theft White, New Recop. b. 2, tit 2a.
  • HUSBAND
    A married man; one who has a lawful wife living. The correlative of "wife." Etymologically, the word signified the "house bond;" the man who, according to Saxon ideas and institutions, held around him the family, for whom he was in law responsible. -Husband and wife. One of tbe great domestic More...
  • HUSBANDMAN
    A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word "farmer" is colloquially used as synonymous with "husbandman," but originally meant a tenant who cultivates leased ground.
  • HUSBANDRIA
    In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 350.
  • 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.
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