Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

HOUSEHOLD GOODS

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HOTEL

plied in modern law to the throwing the amount of an advancement made to a par ticular child, in real or personal estate, into the common stock, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children. 2 Kent, Comm. 421,422. This answers to or resembles the collatio bonorum, or collation of the civil law. HOTEL. An inn; a public house or tav ern; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. 54 Barb. 816; 2 Daly, 15; 46 Mo. 594. HOUR. The twenty-fourth part of a nat ural day; sixty minutes of time. HOUR OF CAUSE. In Scotch practice. The hour when a court is met. 3 How. State Tr. 603. HOUSE. 1. A dwelling; a building de signed for the habitation and residence of men. "House" means, presumptively, a dwelling house; a building divided into floors and apart ments, with four walls, a roof, and doore and chimneys; but it does not necessarily mean pre cisely this. 14 Mees. & W. 181; 7 Man. & G. 122 "House" is not synonymous with "dwelling house." While the former is used in a broader and more comprehensive sense than the latter, it has a narrower and more restricted meaning than the word "building." 46 N H 61. In the devise of a house, the word "house" is synonymous with "messuage," and conveys all that comes within the curtilage. 4 Pa. St. 93. 2. A legislative assembly, or (where the bi cameral system obtains) one of the two branches of the legislature; as the "house of lords," "house of representatives." Also a quorum of a legislative body. See 2 Mich. 287. 3. The name "house" is also given to some collections of men other than legislative bod ies, to some public institutions, and (colloqui ally) to mercantile firms or joint-stock com panies. HOUSE-BOTE. A species of estovers, belonging to a tenant for life or years, con sisting in the right to take from the woods of the lessor or owner such timber as may be necessary for making repairs upon the house. See Co. Litt. 416. HOUSE-BURNING. See ARSON. HOUSE-DUTY. A tax on inhabited houses imposed by 14 & 15 Viet. c. 36, in lieu of window-duty, which was abolished. HOUSE OP COMMONS. One of the constituent houses of the British parliament, composed of representatives ot the counties, cities, and boroughs.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION. A re formatory. A place for the imprisonment of juvenile offenders, or those who have com mitted crimes of lesser magnitude. HOUSE OF ILL FAME. A bawdy house; a brothel; a dwelling allowed by its chief occupant to be used as a resort of per sons desiring unlawful sexual intercourse. 33 Conn. 91. HOUSE OF LORDS. The upper cham ber of the British parliament. It comprises the archbishops and bishops, (called "Lords Spiritual,") the English peers sitting by vir tue of hereditary right, sixteen "Scotch peers elected to represent the Scotch peerage under the act of union, and twenty-eight Irish peers elected under similar provisions. The house of lords, as a judicial body, has ultimate ap pellate jurisdiction, and may sit as a court for the trial of impeachments. HOUSE OF REFUGE. A prison for juvenile delinquents. A house of correction or reformatory. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The name of the body forming the more pop ular and numerous branch of the congress of the United States; also of the similar branch in many of the state legislatures. HOUSEAGE. A fee paid for housing goods by a carrier, or at a wharf, etc. HOUSEBREAKING. In criminal law. Breaking and entering a dwelling-house with intent to commit any felony therein. If done by night, it comes under the definition of "burglary." HOUSEHOLD. A family living togeth er. 18 Johns. 400, 402. Those who dwell under the same roof and compose a family. Webster. A man's family living together constitutes his household, though he may have gone to another state. Belonging to the house and family; domes tic. Webster. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. This term, in a will, includes all personal chattels that may contiibute to the use or conven ience of the householder, or the ornament of the house; as plate, linen, china, both useful and ornamental, and pictures. But goods in trade, books, and wines will not pass by a bequest of household furniture. 1 Bop. Leg. 203. HOUSEHOLD GOODS. These words, in a will, include everything of a permanent nature (i. e., articles of household which are

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