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  • HAGA
    A house in a city or borough. Scott.
  • HAGIA
    A hedge. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 273.
  • HAGNE
    A little hand-gun. St 33 Hen. VIII. c 6.
  • HAGNEBUT
    A hand-gun of a larger description than the hagne. St 2 A S Edw. VI. c. 14; 4 & 5 P. A M. c. 2.
  • HAIA
    In old English law. A park inclosed. Cowell.
  • HAIEBOTE
    In old English law. A permission or liberty to take thorns, etc., to make or repair hedges. Blount.
  • HAILL
    In Scotch law. Whole; the whole "All and haill" are common words in conveyances. 1 Bell, App. Cas. 499.
  • HAILWORKFOLK
    (i. e., holyworkfolk.) Those who formerly held lands by the service of defending or repairing a church or monument.
  • HAIMHALDARE
    In old Scotch law. To seek restitution of one's own goods and gear, and bring the same home again. Skene de Verb. Sign.
  • HAIMSUCKEN
    In Scotch law. The crime of assaulting a person in his own house. Bell.
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