Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

HERITABLE OBLIGATION

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HIDE

HERITABLE OBLIGATION. In Louisiana. An obligation is heritable when the heirs and assigns of one party may en force the performance against the heirs of the other. Civil Code La. art. 1997. HERITABLE RIGHTS. In Scotch law. Eights of the heir; all rights to land or whatever is connected with land, as mills, fishings, tithes, etc. HERITAGE. In the civil law. Every species of immovable which can be the sub ject of property; such as lands, houses, or chards, woods, marshes, ponds, etc., in what ever mode they may have been acquired, either by descent or purchase. 3 Toullier, no. 472. In Scotch law. Land, and all property connected with land; real estate, as distin guished from movables, or personal estate. Bell. HERITOR. In Scotch law. A propri etor of land. 1 Kames, Eq. Fref. HERMANDAD. In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by men in power. Bouvier. HERMAPHRODITE. An animal or human being so malformed as to have the organs of generation of both sexes. Hermaphroditus tarn masculo quam fceminae comparator, secundum prseval entiam sexus incalescentis. An her maphrodite is to be considered male or fe male according to the predominance of the exciting sex. Co. Litt. 8; Bract, fol. 5. HERMENEUTICS. The science or art of construction and interpretation. By the phrase "legal hermeneutics" is understood the systematic body of rules which are recog nized as applicable to the construction and interpretation of legal writings. HERMER. A great lord. Jacob. HERMOGENIAN CODE. See CODEX HERMOGENIANTJS. HERNESCUS. A heron. Cowell. HERNESIUM, or HERNASITJM. Household goods; implements of trade or husbandry; the rigging or tackle of a ship. Cowell. HEROUD, HERAUD. L. Fr. A her ald.

HERFEX. A harrow. Spelman. HERFICATIO. In old English law. A day's work with a harrow. Spelman, HERRING SILVER. This was a com position in money for the custom of supply ing herrings for the provision of a religious house. Wharton. HERUS. A master. Serous facit ut herus det, the servant does [the work] in order that the master may give [him the wages agreed on.] Herus dot ut serous facit, the master gives [or agrees to give, the wages,] in consideration of, or with a view to, the servant's doing [the work.] 2 BL Comm. 445. HESIA. An easement. Du Cange. HEST CORN. In old records. Corn or grain given or devoted to religious persons or purposes. 2 Mon. Angl. 3676; Cowell. HESTA, or HESTHA. A little loaf of bread. HET^SRARCHA. The head of a relig ious house; the head of a college; the warden of a corporation. HET^RIA. In Boman law. A com pany, society, or college. HEUVELBORH. Sax. In old English law. A surety, (warrantus.) HEYLODE. In old records. A custom ary burden upon inferior tenants, for mend ing or repairing hays or hedges. HEYMECTUS. A hay-net; a net for catching conies. Cowell. HIBERNAGIUM. The season for sow ing winter corn. Cowell. HIDAGE. An extraordinary tax for merly payable to the crown for every hide of land. This taxation was levied, not in mon ey, but provision of armor, etc. Cowell. HIDALGO. In Spanish law. A noble; a person entitled to the rights of nobility. By hidalgos are understood men chosen from good situations in life, (de buenos lugures,) and possessed of property, (algo.) White, New Becop. b. 1, tit. 5, c. 1. HIDALGUIA. In Spanish law. Nobil ity by descent or lineage. White, New Becop. b. 1, tit. 5, e. 8, § 4. HIDE. In old English law. A measure of land, being as much as could be worked with one plow. It is variously estimated at

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