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HIS EXCELLENCY

HIGHWAYMAN

HIGHWAYMAN.

HIRE, v. To purchase the temporary use of a thing, or to stipulate for the labor or services of another. See HIRING. To engage in service for a stipulated re ward, as to hire a servant for a year, or laborers by the day or month; to engage a man to temporary service for wages. To "employ" is a word of more enlarged signifi cation. A man hired to labor is employed, but a man may be employed in a work who is not hired. McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 N. Y. 605. For definitions of the various species of this class of contracts, under their Latin names, see LOCATIO and following titles. HIRE, n. Compensation for the use of a thing, or for labor or services. Carr v. State, 50 Ind. 180; Learned-Letcher Lumber Co. v. Fowler, 109 Ala. 169, 19 South. 396. HIREMAN. A subject Du Cange. HIRER. One who hires a thing, or the labor or services of another person. Turner v. Cross, 83 Tex. 218, 18 S. W. 578, 15 L. R. A. 262. HIRING. Hiring is a contract by which one person grants to another either the en joyment of a thing or the use of the labor and industry, either of himself or his serv ant, during a certain time, for a stipulated compensation, or where one contracts for the labor or services of another about a thing bailed to him for a specified purpose. Code Ga. 1882, § 2085. Hiring is a contract by which one gives to another the temporary possession and use of property, other than money, for reward, and the latter agrees to return the same to the former at a future time. Civ. Code Cal. § 1925; Civ. Code Dak. § 1103. Synonyms. "Hiring" and "borrowing" are both contracts by which a qualified property may be transferred to the hirer or borrower, and they differ only in this, that hiring is al ways for a price, stipend, or recompense, while borrowing is merely gratuitous. 2 Bl. Comm. 453; Neel v. State, 33 Tex. Cr. R. 408, 26 S. W. 726. HIRST, HURST. In old English law. A wood. Co. Litt 4&. HIS. The use of this pronoun in a writ ten instrument, in referring to a person whose Christian name is designated therein by a mere initial, is not conclusive that the per son referred to is a male; it may be shown by parol that the person intended is a female. Berniaud v. Beecher, 71 Cal. 38, 11 Pac. 802. HIS EXCELLENCY. In English law. The title of a viceroy, governor general, am bassador, or commander in chief. In American law. This title is given to the governor of Massachusetts by the consti tution of that state; and it is commonly giv-

A bandit; one who

robs travelers upon the highway. HIGLER. In English law. A hawker or peddler. A person who carries from door to door, and sells by retail, small articles of provisions, and the like. In Spanish law. A receipt given by an heir of a decedent, setting forth what property he has received from the estate. HIKENILD STREET. One of the four great Roman roads of Britain. More com monly called "Ikenild Street." HILARY RULES. A collection of orders and forms extensively modifying the plead ing and practice in the English superior courts of common law, established in Hilary term, 1834. Stimson. In English law. A term of court, begining on the 11th and ending on the 31st of January in each year. Superseded (1875) by Hilary sittings, which begin January 11th, and end on the Wednes day before Easter. HINDENI HOMINES. A society of men. The Saxons ranked men into three classes, and valued them, as to satisfaction for in juries, etc., according to their class. The highest class were valued at 1,200s., and were called "twelf hindmen;" the middle class at 600s., and called "sexhindmen;" the lowest at 200s., called "twyhindmen." Their wives were termed "Mndas" Brompt Leg. Alfred, c. 12. HINDER AND DELAY. To hinder and delay is to do something which is an attempt to defraud, rather than a successful fraud; to put some obstacle in the path, or interpose some time, unjustifiably, before the creditor can realize what is owed out of his debtor's property. See Walker v. Sayers, 5 Bush (Ky.). 582; Burdick v. Post, 12 Barb. (N. Y.) 186; Crow v. Beardsley, 68 Mo. 439; Burn ham v. Brennan, 42 N. Y. Super. Ct 63. HINDU LAW. The system of native law prevailing among the Gentoos, and adminis tered by the government of British India. HINE, or HIND. In old English law. A husbandry servant HINEFARE. In old English law. The loss or departure of a servant from his master. Domesday. HIPOTECA. In Spanish law. A mort gage of real property. HIGUELA. HILARY TERM.

HIRCISCUNDA.

See HEBCISCUNDA.