Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

HOUSEHOLD STUFF

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HUNDRED GEMOTE

not consumed in their enjoyment) that are used in or purchased or otherwise acquired by a testator for his house. 1 Bop. Leg. 191. HOUSEHOLD STUFF. This phrase, in a will, includes everything which may be used for the convenience of the house, as tables, chairs, bedding, and the like. But apparel, books, weapons, tools for artificers, cattle, victuals, and choses in action will not pass by those words, unless the context of the will clearly show a contrary intention. 1 Bop. Leg. 206. HOUSEHOLDER. The occupier of a house. Brande. More correctly, one who keeps house with his family; the head or mas ter of a family. Webster; 18 Johns. 302. One who has a household; the head of a household. HOUSEKEEPER. One who is in actual possession of and who occupies a house, as distinguished from a "boarder," "lodger," or "guest." HOVEL. A place used by husbandmen to set their plows, carts, and other farming utensils out of the rain and sun. A shed; a cottage; a mean house. HOWE. In old English law. A hill. Co. Litt. 56. HOY. A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster. HOYMAN. The master or captain of a hoy. HUCUSQUE. In old pleading. Hith erto. 2 Mod. 24. HUDE-GELD. In old English law. An acquittance for an assault upon a trespassing servant. Supposed to be a mistake or mis print in Fleta for "hinegeld." Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, § 20. Also the price of one's skin, or the money paid by a servant to save himself from a whipping. Du Cange. HUE AND CRY. In old English law. A loud outcry with which felons (such as rob bers, burglars, and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were bound to take up, and join in the pursuit, until the malefactor was taken. Bract, fols. 1156, 124; 4 Bl. Comm. 293. A written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all officers and people to assist in retaking him. 8 How. State Tr. 386.

HUEBRAS. In Spanish law. A meas ure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plow in one day. 2 White, Becop. (38.) 49; 12 Pet. 443. HUISSERIUM. A ship used to trans port horses. Also termed "uffer." HUISSIERS. In French law. Marshals; ushers; process-servers; sheriffs' officers. Ministerial officers attached to the courts, to effect legal service of process required by law in actions, to issue executions, etc., and to maintain order during the sitting of the courts. HULKA. In old records. A hulk or small vessel. Cowell. HULLUS. In old records. A hill. 2 Mon. Angl. 292; Cowell. HUMAGIUM. A moist place. Mon. Angl. HUNDRED. Under the Saxon organiza tion of England, each county or shire com prised an indefinite number of hundred*, each hundred containing ten tithings, or groups of ten families of freeholders or frank pledges. The hundred was governed by a high constable, and had its own court; but its most remarkable feature was the corporate responsibility of the whole for the crimes or defaults of the individual members. The in troduction of this plan of organization into England is commonly ascribed to Alfred, but the idea, as well of the collective liability as of the division, was probably known to the ancient German peoples, as we find the same thing established in the Frankish king dom under Clothaire, and in Denmark. See 1 Bl. Comm. 115; 4 Bl. Comm. 411. HUNDRED COURT. In English law. A larger court-baron, being held for all the in habitants of a particular hundred, instead of a manor. The free suitors are the judges, and the steward the registrar, as in the case of a court-baron. It is not a court of record, and resembles a court-baron in all respects except that in point of territory it is of greater jurisdiction. These courts have long since fallen into desuetude. 3 Bl. Comm. 34, 35; 3 Steph. Comm. 394, 395. HUNDRED GEMOTE. Among the Saxons, a meeting or court of the freehold ers of a hundred, which assembled, original ly, twelve times a year, and possessed civil and criminal jurisdiction and ecclesiastical powers. 1 Beeve, Eng. Law, 7.

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