Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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HAUGH

HANSEATIC

jated a code of maritime law, which was known as the "Laws of the Hanse Towns," or Jus Hanseaticum Maritimum. HANSEATIC. Pertaining to a hanse or commercial alliance; but, generally, the union of the Hanse towns is the one referred to, as in the expression the "Hanseatic League." HANSG-RAVE. The chief of a company; the head man of a corporation. HANTELOD. In old European law. An arrest, or attachment. Spelraan. HAP. To catch. Thus, "hap the rent," "hap the deed-poll," were formerly used. HAPPINESS. The constitutional right of men to pursue their "happiness" means the right to pursue any lawful business or vocation, in any manner not inconsistent with the equal rights of others, which may increase their prosperity, or develop their faculties, so as to give to them their highest enjoyment. Ill U. S. 757, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 652; 1 Bl. Comm. 41. HAQUE. In old statutes. A hand-gun, about three-quarters of a yard long. HARACIUM. In old English law. A race of horses and mares kept for breed; a stud. Spelman. HARBINGER. In England, an officer of the royal household. HARBOR, c. To receive clandestinely and without lawful authority a person for the purpose of so concealing him that another having a right to the lawful custody of such person shall be deprived of the same. 5 How. 215, 227. A distinction has been taken, in some decisions, between "harbor" and "con ceal." A person may be convicted of har boring a slave, although he may not have concealed her. 24 Ala. 71. HARBOR, n. A haven, or a space of deep water so sheltered by the adjacent land as to afford a safe anchorage tor ships. " Port" is a word of larger import than " harbor," since it implies the presence of wharves, or at any rate the means and opportunity of receiving and discharging cargo. HARBOR AUTHORITY. In England a harbor authority is a body of persons, cor porate or unincorporate, being proprietors of, oi intrusted with the duty of constructing, improving, managing, or lighting, any har bor. St. 24 & 25 Viet. c. 47. HARD LABOR. A puB'shOjmc, addi tional to mere imprisonment, sometimes im

posed upon convicts sentenced to a peniten tiary. But the labor is not, as a rule, any harder than ordinary mechanical labor. HARDHEIDIS. In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three half-pence. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note. HARDSHIP. The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bear upon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction, which is otherwise termed the "argument db incon venienti. " HARNASCA. In old European law. The defensive armor of a man; harness. Spel man. HARNESS. All warlike instruments; also the tackle or furniture of a ship. HARO, HARRON. Fr. In Norman and early English law. An outcry, or hue and cry after felons and malefactors. Cow ell. HARRIOTT. The old form of " heriot, w (q. v.) Williams, Seis. 203. HART. A stag or male deer of the forest five years old complete. HASP AND STAPLE. In old Scotch law. The form of entering an heir in a sub ject situated within a royal borough. It con sisted of the heir's taking hold of the hasp and staple of the door, (which was the sym bol of possession,) with other formalities. Bell; Burrill. HASPA. In old English law. The hasp of a door; by which livery of seisin might anciently be made, where there was a house on the premises. HASTA. Lat. A spear. In the Roman law, a spear was the sign of a public sale of goods or sale by auction. Hence the phrase "hastce subjicere" (to put under the spear) meant to put up at auction. Calvin. In feudal law. A spear. The symbol used in making investiture of a fief. Feud, lib. 2, tit. 2. HAT MONEY. In maritime law. Pri mage; a small duty paid to the captain and mariners of a ship. HAUBER. O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman. HAUGH, or HOWGH. A green in a valley.

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