KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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HUSBAND

HYPOTHEC

and institutions, held around him the family, for whom he was in law responsible. —Husband and wife. One of the great do mestic relationships; being that of a man and woman lawfully joined in marriage, by which, at common law, the legal existence of a wife is incorporated with that of her husband.— Husband land. In old Scotch law. A quan tity of land containing' commonly six acres. Skene.— Husband of a ship. See SHIP'S HUSBAND. HUSBANDMAN. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word "farmer" is colloquially used as synonymous with "hus bandman," but originally meant a tenant who cultivates leased ground. HUSBANDRIA. In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 356. HUSBANDRY. Agriculture; cultivation of .the soil for food; farming, in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 Heisk. (Tenn.) 516; McCue v. Tunstead, 65 Cal. 506, 4 Pac 510. HUSBREC. In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 30& HUSCARLE. In old English law. A house servant or domestic; a man of the household. Spelman. A king's vassal, thane, or baron; an earl's man or vassal. A term of frequent occur rence in Domesday Book. HUSFASTNE. He who holds house and land. Bract 1. 3, t 2, c 10. HUSGABLUM. In old records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount HUSH-MONEY. A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information; pay to secure silence. HUSTINGS. Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within a building, at a time when other courts were held in the open air. It was a local court The county court in the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York, Winchester, Lincoln, and in other pla ces similar to the London hustings. Also the raised place from which candidates for seats in parliament address the constituency, on the occasion of their nomination. Wharton. In Virginia, some of the local courts are called "hustings," as in the city of Rich mond. Smith v. Com., 6 Grat (Va.) 696. HUTESIUM ET CLAMOR. Hue and cry. See HUE AND CBY. HUTILAN. Taxes. Mon. Angl. L 586. HWATA, HWATUNG. In old English law. Augury; divination.

HYBERNAGIUM. In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, between Michaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain it self; winter grain or winter corn. Cowell. HYBRID. A mongrel; an animal form ed of the union of different species, or dif ferent genera; also (metaphorically) a hu man being born of the union of persons of different races. * In old English law. Hide; Akin. A measure of land, containing, according to some, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it in the Dialogus de Scaccario. It seems, however, that the hide varied in different parts of the kingdom. An instrument for measuring the density of fluids. Being im mersed in fluids, as in water, brine, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of their density, or their specific gravity, and thence their quality. See Rev. St U. S. i 2918 (U. S. Comp. St 1901, p. 1927.) HYEMS, HIEMS. Lat In the civil law. Winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some of the old books, "yems." Fleta, lib. 2, c. 73, §§ 16, la HYPNOTISM. In medical jurisprudence. A psychic or mental state rendering the pa tient susceptible to suggestion at the will of another. The hypnotic state is an abnormal condition of the mind and senses, in the nature of trance, artificial catalepsy, or somnambulism, induced in one person by another, by concentration of the attention, a strong effort of volition, and perhaps the exercise of a telepathic power not as yet fully understood, or by mental sugges tion, in which condition the mental processes of the subject and to a great extent his will are subjugated and directed by those of the opera tor. HYPOBOLUM. In the civil law. The name of the bequest or legacy given by the husband to his wife, at his death, above her dowry, HYPOCHONDRIA. See INSANITY. HYPOSTASIS. In medical jurisprudence. (1) The morbid deposition of a sediment of any kind in the body. (2) A congestion or flushing of the blood vessels, as in varicose veins. Post-mortem hypostasis, a peculiar lividity of the cadaver. HYPOTHEC. In Scotland, the term "hypothec" is used to signify the landlord's right which, independently of any stipula tion, he has over the crop and stocking of his tenant. It gives a security to the landlord over the crop of each year for the rent of HYD. HYDAGE. See HIDAGK. HYDROMETER.