Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

HONTFONGENETHEF

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HOMOLOGARE

baron or lord paramount. Also those dig nities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles, which flow from the crown as the fountain of honor. Whar ton. In American law. The customary title of courtesy given to judges of the higher courts, and occasionally to some other officers; as "his honor," "your honor." HONOR COURTS. Tribunals held within honors or seigniories. HONORABLE. A title of courtesy giv en in England to the younger children of earls, and the children of viscounts and bar ons; and, collectively, to the house of com mons. In America, the word is used as a title of courtesy for various classes of offi cials, but without any clear lines of distinc tion. HONORARIUM. In the civil law. An honorary or free gift; a gratuitous payment, as distinguished from hire or compensation for service; a lawyer's or counsellor's fee. Dig. 50, 13, 1, 10-12. An honorarium is a voluntary donation, in con sideration of services which admit of no compen sation in money; in particular, to advocates at law, deemed to practice for honor or influence, and not for fees. 14 Ga. 89. HONORARIUM JUS. In Roman law. The law of the praetors and the edicts of the sediles. HONORARY CANONS. Those with out emolument. 3 & 4 Viet c. 113, § 23. HONORARY FEUDS. Titles of nobil. ity, descendible to the eldest son, in exclusion of all the rest. 2 Bl. Comm. 56. HONORARY SERVICES. In feudal law. Special services to be rendered to the king in person, characteristic of the tenure by grand serjeanty; such as to carry his ban ner, his sword, or the like, or to be his but ler, champion, or other officer, at his corona tion. Litt. § 153; 2 Bl. Comm. 73. HONORARY TRUSTEES. Trustees to preserve contingent remainders, so called because they are bound, in honor only, to de cide on the most proper and prudential course. Lewin, Trusts, 408. HONORIS RESFECTUM. By reasoa of honor or privilege. See CHALLENGE. HONTFONGENETHEF. In Saxon law. A thief taken with hondhdbend; i. e., having the thing stolen in his hand. Cowell.

space of ten days, to complain of the sen tences of arbitrators, appointment of syndics, or assignees of insolvents, settlements of •accessions, etc. Also the approval given by the judge of certain acts and agreements for the purpose of rendering them more bind ing and executory. Escriche. HOMOLOGARE. In the civil law. To confirm or approve; to consent or assent; to confess. Calvin. HOMOLOGATE. In modern civil law. To approve; to confirm; as a court homolo gates a proceeding. See HOMOLOGATION. Literally, to use the same words with an other; to say the like. 9 Mart. (La.) 324. To assent to what another says or writes. HOMOLOGATION. In the civil law. Approbation; confirmation by a court of justice; a judgment which orders the execu tion of some act. Merl. Re'pert. The term is also used in Louisiana. In English, law. An estoppel in pais. L. B. 3 App. Cas. 1026. In Scotch law. An act by which a per son approves of a deed, the effect of which is to render that deed, though in itself defect ive, binding upon the person by whom it is homologated. Bell. Confirmation of a void able deed. HOMONYML2E. A term applied in the civil law to cases where a law was repeated, or laid down in the same terms or to the same effect, more than once. Cases of iter ation and repetition. 2 Kent, Comm. 489, note. HONDHABEND. 8ax. Having in hand. See HANDHABEND. HONESTE VIVERE. Lat. To live honorably, creditably, or virtuously. One of the three general precepts to which Justinian reduced the whole doctrine of the law, (Inst. 1, 1, 3; Bract, fols. 3, 8b,) the others being alterum non Icedere, (not to injure others,) and suum cuique tribuere, (to render to every man his due.) HONESTUS. Of good character or standing. Coram duobus vel plunbus viris Ugalibus et honestis, before two or more lawful and good men. Bract, fol. 61. HONOR, «. To accept a bill of exchange, M: to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at naturity and according to its tenor. HONOR, n. In English law. A seign iory of several manors held under one

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