KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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HOUSE

HOTCHPOT

chimneys; but it does not necessarily mean precisely this. Daniel v. Coulsting, 7 Man. & G. 125; Surman v. Darley, 14 Mees. & W. 183., "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." State v. Garity, 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. Rogers v. Smith, 4 Pa. 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 South worth v. Palmyra & J. R. Co., 2 Mich. 287. 3. The name "house" is also given to some collections of men other than legislative bodies, to some public institutions, and (col loquially) to mercantile firms or joint-stock companies. —Ancient house. One which has stood long enough to acquire an easement of support against the adjoining land or building. 3 Kent. Comm. 437.—Bawdy house. A brothel; a house maintained for purposes of prostitution.— Beer house. See BEEB.—Boarding house. See that title.—Dwelling house. See that title. —House-bote. A species of estovers, belong ing to a tenant for life or years, consisting 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 b/ 14 & 15 Vict. c. 36, in lieu of window-duty, which was abolished.—House of commons. One of the constituent houses of the British parliament, composed of representatives of the counties, cities, and boroughs.—House of cor rection. A reformatory. A place for the im prisonment of juvenile offenders, or those who have committed crimes of lesser magnitude. Ex parte Moon Fook, 72 Cal. 10, 12 Pac. 804.— House of delegates. The official title of the lower branch of the legislative assembly of sev eral of the American states, e. g., Maryland and Virginia.—House of ill fame. A bawdy house ; a brothel; a dwelling allowed by its chief occupant to be used as a resort of persons desiring unlawful sexual intercourse. McAlis ter v. Clark, 33 Conn. 91; State v. Smith, 29 Minn. 193, 12 «N. W. 524; Posnett v. Marble. 62 Vt. 481. 20 Atl. 813, 11 L. R. A. 162, 22 Am. St. Rep. 126—House of keys. The name of the lower branch of the legislative as sembly or parliament of the Isle of Man, con sisting of twenty-four representatives chosen by popular election.—House of lords. The up per chamber of the British parliament. It comprises the archbishops and bishops, (called "Lords Spiritual,") the English peers sitting by virtue 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 appellate 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 repre sentatives. The name of the body forming the more popular and numerous branch of the congress of the United States; also of the sim ilar branch in many of the state legislatures. —House of worship. A building or place set apart for and devoted to the holding of relig ious services or exercises or public worship; a church or chapel or place similarly used. Old

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. The blending and mixing property belonging to different persons, in order to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Oomm. 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 the putting in hotchpot, is ap 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 oonorum, or collation of the civil law. See Law v. Smith, 2 R. I. 249; Ray v. Loper, 65 Mo. 472; Jackson v. Jackson, 28 Miss. 680, 64 Am. Dec. 114; Thompson v. Carmichael, 3 Sandf. <3h. (N. Y.) 120. An inn; a public house or tav ern ; a house for entertaining strangers or travelers. St Louis v. Siegrist, 46 Mo. 594; People v. Jones, 54 Barb. (N. Y.) 316; Crom well v. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 19. Synonyms. In law, there is no difference whatever between the terms "hotel," "inn," and "tavern," except that in some states a statu tory definition has been given to the word "ho tel," especially with reference to the grant of licenses to sell liquor, as, that it shall contain a certain number of separate rooms for the en tertainment of guests, or the like. But none of the three terms mentioned will include a boarding house (because that is a place kept for the entertainment of permanent boarders, while a hotel or inn is for travelers and transient guests), nor a lodging house (because the keep er thereof does not furnish food for guests, which is one of the requisites of a hotel or inn), nor a restaurant or eating-house, which furnishes food only and not lodging. See Mar tin v. State Ins. Co., 44 N. J. Law, 485, 43 Am. Rep. 397 ; In re Liquor Licenses, 4 Montg. Co. Law Rep'r (Pa.) 79: Kelly v. Excise Com'rs, 54 How. Prac. (N. Y.) 331; Carpenter v. Taylor, 1 Hilt. (N. Y.) 193; Cromwell T. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 23. HOTCHPOT. HOTEL.

HOUR.

The twenty-fourth part of a nat

oral 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 doors and