Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

HIGHWAY ACTS

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HIRING

gress, In granting a privilege of building a bridge, to declare that it shall be .a public highway. Again, it has reference to some system of law au thorizing the taking a strip of land, and preparing and devoting it to the use of travelers. In this use it imports a road-way upon the soil, constructed under the authority of these laws. Abbott. HIGHWAY ACTS, or LAWS. The body or system of laws governing the laying out, repair, and use of highways. H I G H W A Y CROSSING. A place where the track of a railroad crosses the line of a highway. HIGHWAY-RATE. In English law. A tax for the maintenance and repair of high ways, chargeable upon the same property that is liable to the poor-rate. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. In criminal law. The crime of robbery committed upon or near a public highway. In England, by St. 23 Hen. VIII. c. 1, this was made felony without benefit of clergy, while robbery com mitted elsewhere was less severely punished. The distinction was abolished by St. 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 9, and in this country it has nev er prevailed generally. HIGHWAY TAX. A tax for and ap plicable to the making and repair of high* ways. HIGHWAYMAN. A bandit; one who robs travelers upon the highway. HIGLER. In English law. A hawker or peddler. A person who carries from door to door, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like. HIGUELA. In Spanish law. A receipt given by an heir of a decedent, setting forth what property he has received from the es tate. HIKENILD STREET. One of the four great Roman roads of Britain. More commonly called "Ikenild Street." HILARY RULES. A collection of or ders and forms extensively modifying the pleading and practice in the English supe rior courts of common law, established in Hilary term, 1834. Stimson. HILARY TERM. In English law. A term of court, beginning on the 11th and ending on the 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which begin January 11th, and end on the Wednes day before Easter. HINDENI HOMINES. A society of men. The Saxons ranked men into three

classes, and valued them, as to satisfaction for injuries, etc., according to their class. The highest class were valued at 1,200s., and were called "twelf hindmen;" the middle class at 600s., and called "sexhindmen;" the lowest at 200s., called " twyhindmen." Their wives were termed M hindas." Brompt. Leg. Alfred, c. 12. HINDER AND DELAY. To hinder and delay is to do something which is an at tempt to defraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some obstacle in the path, or interpose some time, unjustifiably, before the creditor can realize what is owed out of his debtor's property. 42 N. Y. Super. Ct. 63. HINDU LAW. The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and ad ministered by the government of- British In dia. HINE, or HIND. A husbandry serv ant. HINEFARE. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday. HIPOTECA. In Spanish law. A mort gage of real property. HIRCISCUNDA. See HERCISOTTNDA. HIRE, v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See HIRING. To engage in service for a stipulated re ward, as to hire a servant for a year, or la borers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary service for wages. To "em ploy" is a word of more enlarged significa tion. A man hired to labor is employed, but a man may be employed in a work who is not hired. 11 N. Y. 605. For definitions of the various species of this class of contracts, under their Latin names, see LOOATIO and following titles. HIRE, n. Compensation for the use of a thing, or for labor or services. HIREMAN. A subject. Du Cange. HIRER. One who hires a thing, or the labor or services of another person. HIRING. Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the en joyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his servant, during a certain time, for a stipulated com pensation, or where one contracts for the labor or services of another about a thing bailed to him for a specified purpose. God« Ga. 1882, § 2085.

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