Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

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war office, but the relations between them are complicated. Wharton. HORTUS. Lat. In the civil law. A garden. Dig. 32, 91, 5. HOSPES. Lat. A guest. 8 Coke, 82. HOSPES GENERALIS. A great chamberlain. HOSPITAL. An Institution for the re ception and care of sick, wounded, infirm, or aged persons; generally incorporated, and then of the class of corporations called "elee mosynary" or "charitable." HOSPITALLERS. The knights of a re ligious order, so called because they built a hospital at Jerusalem, wherein pilgrims were received. All their lands and goods in Eng land were given to the sovereign by 32 Hen. VIII. c 24. HOSPITATOB. A host or entertainer. Hospitator communis. An innkeeper. 8 Coke, 32. Hospitator magnus. The marshal of a camp. HOSPITIA. Inns. Hospitia communia, common inns. Beg. Orig. 105. Hospitia curia, inns of court. Hospitia cancellarice, inns of chancery. Crabb, Eng. Law, 428, 429; 4 Reeve, Eng. Law, 120. HOS^ITICTDE. One that kills his guest or host. HOSPITIUM. An inn; a household. HOSPODAR. A Turkish governor in Moldavia or Wallachia. HOST. L. Fr. An army. Britt. c. 22. A military expedition; war. Kelham. HOSTAGE. A person who is given into the possession of the enemy, in a public war, his freedom (or life) to stand as security for the performance of some contract or promise made by the belligerent power giving the hostage with the other. HOSTELAGIUM. In old records. A right to receive lodging and entertainment, anciently reserved by lords in the houses of their tenants. Cowell. HOSTELER. An innkeeper. Now ap plied, under the form "ostler," to those who look to a guest's horses. Cowell. HOSTES. Enemies. Hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race; ». «.,pi rates.

Hostes sunt qui nobis vel quibus nos bellum decernimus; cseteri proditores vel prsedones aunt. 7 Coke, 24. Enemies are those with whom we declare war, or who declare it against us; all others are traitors or pirates. HOSTIA. In old records. The host bread, or consecrated-wafer, in the eucha rist. Cowell. HOSTICIDE. One who kills an enemy. HOSTILARIA, HOSPITALARIA. A place or room in religious houses used for the reception of guests and strangers. HOSTILE. Having the character of an enemy; standing in the relation of an enemy. See 1 Kent, Comm. c. 4. HOSTILE EMBARGO. One laid upon the vessels of an actual or prospective enemy. HOSTILE WITNESS. A witness who manifests so much hostility or prejudice un der examination in chief that the party who has called him, or his representative, is al lowed to cross-examine him, i. e., to treat him as though he had been called by the op posite party. Wharton. HOSTILITY. In the law of nations. A state of open war. " At the breaking out of hostility." 1 Kent, Comm. 60. An act of open war. "When hostilities have commenced." Id. 56. A hostile character. "Hostility may at tach only to the person." Id. HOT-WATER ORDEAL. In old En glish law. This was a test, in cases of ac cusation, by hot water; the party accused and suspected being appointed by the judge to put his arms up to the elbows in seeth ing hot water, which, after sundry prayers and invocations, he did, and was, by the ef fect which followed, judged guilty or inno cent. Wharton. HOTCHPOT. The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Comm. 190. Anciently applied to the mixing and blend ing of lands given to one daughter in frank marriage, with those descending to her and her sisters in fee-simple, for the purpose of dividing the whole equally among them; without which the daughter who held in frank marriage could have no share in the lands in fee-simple. Litt. §§ 267, 268; Co. Litt. 177a; 2 Bl. Comm. 190. Hotchpot, or theputting in hotchpot, is ap

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