Category: H

  • Hundred Court

    Definition of Hundred Court The Court of the Hundred. It was similar to the old County Court in jurisdiction and procedure. Judgment was given by the suiturs Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Hundred Court in the Dictionaries, Hundred Court in our […]

  • Hurst V. Picture Theatres, Ltd.

    Definition of Hurst V. Picture Theatres, Ltd. ([1915] 1 K. B. 1). A licence to enter premises given for value cannot be revoked except for reasonable cause.The plaintiff, who had purchased a ticket for a seat at a cinema, was turned out by direction of the manager, and without good cause. […]

  • Hundredor

    Definition of Hundredor One of the inhabitants of a hundred who was liable to serve on a jury trying an issue regarding land situate therein Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Hundredor in the Dictionaries, Hundredor in our legal dictionaries, […]

  • Hurst V. Picture Theatres, Ltd.

    Definition of Hurst V. Picture Theatres, Ltd. ([1915] 1 K. B. 1). A licence to enter premises given for value cannot be revoked except for reasonable cause.The plaintiff, who had purchased a ticket for a seat at a cinema, was turned out by direction of the manager, and without good cause. […]

  • Husband And Wife

    Definition of Husband And Wife The old rule was Husband and wife are one in law. At common law a husband became on his marriage absolutely entitled to all chases in possession belonging to his wife in her own right (including those acquired after marriage), and to the whole of the rents and […]

  • Hush Money

    Definition of Hush Money Money paid to induce a person to compound a felony or to stifle a prosecution, or to refrain from giving evidence or information Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Hush Money in the Dictionaries, Hush Money in our legal […]

  • Hussey V. Home-Payne

    Definition of Hussey V. Home-Payne ((1879), L. R. 4 A. C. 311). Held, that when a contract is alleged to have been made by correspondence, the whole of it must be looked at. The inclusion of a stipulation, otherwise implied, that the title to property shall be approved by the purchaser’s […]

  • Hyde V. Wrench

    Definition of Hyde V. Wrench ((1840), 3 Beav. 334). Held, that the refusal of an offer or the making of a counter offer puts an end to it, and it cannot be afterwards accepted so as to bind the offeror Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Hyde V. […]

  • Hypothecation

    Definition of Hypothecation (1) Pledging a ship or her freight or cargo for the payment of money borrowed by the master. It is either bottomry or respondentia (q.v.) ; (2) a charge on property as security for the payment of a sum of money where the property remains in the possession of the […]

  • Hollins V. Fowler

    Definition of Hollins V. Fowler ((1874), L. R. 7 H. L. 757). Held, that any person who, however innocently, obtains possession of the goods of a person who has been fraudulently deprived of them, and disposes of them, whether for his own benefit or that of any other person, is guilty of […]