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  • 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.
  • HYBERNAGIUM
    In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.
  • HYBRID
    A mongrel; an animal formed of the union of different species, or different genera; also (metaphorically) a human being bom of the union of persons of different races.
  • HYD
    In old English law. Hide; skin. A measure of land, containing, according to some, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it in the Dialogue de Bcaccario. It seems, however, that the hide varied in different parts of the kingdom.
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