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for such commodities as were vended in the common hall of €he place. Cowell; Blount. In Spanish law. The find ing and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the first occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49; 5, 20, 50. HALLUCINATION.' In medical juris prudence. A trick or deceit of the senses; a morbid error either of the sense of sight or that of hearing, or possibly of the other senses; a psychological state, such as would be produced naturally by an act of sense-per ception, attributed confidently, but mistaken ly, to something which has no objective exist ence ; as, when the patient imagines that he sees an object when there is none, or hears a voice or other sound when nothing strikes his ear. See Staples v. Wellington, 58 Me. 459; Foster v. Dickerson, 64 Vt. 233, 24 Atl. 257; McNett v. Cooper (C. C.) 13 Fed. 590; People v. Krist, 168 N. Y. 19, 60 N. E. 1057. Hallucination does not by itself constitute in sanity, though it may be evidence of it or a sign of its approach. It is to be distinguished from "delusion" in this, that the latter is a fixed and irrational belief in the existence of a fact or state of facts, not cognizable through the senses, but to be determined by the facul ties of reason, memory, judgment, and the like; while hallucination is a belief in the existence of an external object, perceptible by the senses, but having no real existence; or, in so far as a delusion may relate to an external object, it is an irrational belief as to the character, na ture, or appearance of something which really exists and affects the senses. For example, if a man should believe that he saw his right hand in its proper place, after it had been am putated, it would be an hallucination; but if he believed that his right hand was made of glass, it would be a delusion. In other words, in the case of hallucination, the senses betray the mind, while in the case of delusion, the senses act normally, but their evidence is rejected by the mind on account of the existence of an ir rational belief formed independently of them. They are further distinguished by the fact that hallucinations may be observed and studied by the subject himself and traced to their causes, or may be corrected by reasoning or argument, while a delusion is an, unconscious error, but so fixed and unchangeable that the patient can not be reasoned out of it Hallucination is al so to be distinguished from "illusion," the lat ter term being appropriate to describe a per verted or distorted or wholly mistaken impres sion in the mind, derived from a true act of sense-perception, stimulated by a real external object, but modified by the imagination of the subject; while, in the case of hallucination, as above stated, there is no objective reality to correspond with the imagined perception. HALLAZCO. HALLE-GEMOTE. In Saxon law. Hali gemot, (q. v.)

dollars.— Half-endeal. a thing.— Half-kineg. king, (semi-rex.)

A moiety, or half of In Saxon law. Half

A title given to the aldermen of all England. Crabb, Eng. Law, 28; Spel man.— Half-mark. A noble, or six shillings and eight pence in English money.— Half pi lotage. Compensation for services which a Silot has put himself in readiness to perform, y labor, risk, and cost, and has offered to per form, at half the rate he would have receiv ed if the services had actually been performed. Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsvlvania, 114 IT. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158.— Half proof. In the civil law. Proof by one wit ness, or a private instrument. Hallifax, Oivil Law, b. 3, c. 9, no. 25; 3 Bl. Oomm. 370. Or prima facie proof, which yet was not suffi cient to found a sentence or decree.— Half-seal. That which was formerly used in the English chancery for sealing of commissions to delegates, upon any appeal to the court of delegates, ei ther in ecclesiastical or marine causes.— Half section. In American land law. The half of a section of land according to the divisions of the government survey, laid off either by a north-and-south or by am east-and-west line, and containing 320 acres. See Brown v. Har din, 21 Ark. 324.— Half-timer. A child who, by the operation of the English factory and edu cation acts, is employed for less than the full time in a factory or workshop, in order that he may attend some "recognized efficient school." See factory and workshop act, 1878, § 23: ele mentary education act, 1876, § 11.— Half tongue. A jury half of one tongue or nation ality and half of another. See DE MEDIETATB LINGUA.— Half-year. In legal computation. The period of one hundred and eighty-two days; the odd hours being rejected. Co. Litt. 135&; Cro. Jac. 166; Yel. 100; 1 Steph. Comm. 265; Pol. Code Cal. 1903, § 3257. HALIFAX LAW. A synonym for lynch law, or the summary (and unauthorized) trial of a person accused of crime and the inflic tion of death upon him; from the name of the parish of Halifax, in England, where an ciently this form of private justice was prac tised by the free burghers in the case of per sons accused of stealing; also called "gibbet law." The meeting of a hall, (conventus auloe,) that is, a lord's court; a court of a manor, or court baron. Spelman. So called from the hall, where the tenants or freemen met, and jus tice was administered. Crabb, Eng. Law, 26. In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was com puted from Halimas to Candlemas. Whar ton. A building or room of consider able size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc. In English, law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion-house. Cowell. In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market, HALIGEMOT. In Saxon law. HALIMAS. HALL. HALLAGE.

HALMOTE.

See HAIJGEMOT.

HALYMOTE.

A holy or ecclesiastical

court. A court held in London before the lord mayor and sheriffs, for regulating the bakers. It was anciently held on Sunday next be-