Category: H
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Honour
Definition of Honour (1) A seignory in capite of which several inferior lordships or manors depend ; and the land or district included therein. An Honour cannot be created since the statute Quia Emptores, except by Act of Parliament. (2) To honour a bill of exchange is to pay it, ‘or to accept […]
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Hooley V. Hatton
Definition of Hooley V. Hatton ((1773), 1 Bro. C. C. 389, n). Lady Finch, by her will, gave the plaintiff a legacy of 500, and afterwards by a codicil, a legacy of 1,000 ; and the question was whether the last legacy alone passed or the legatee should have both. Held, that the plaintiff was…
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Hostile Witness
Definition of Hostile Witness See Witness Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Hostile Witness in the Dictionaries, Hostile Witness in our legal dictionaries, Related topics, Browse topics from the European Encyclopedia of Law, Browse the Legal […]
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Higham V. Ridgway
Definition of Higham V. Ridgway ((1808), 10 East, 109). If a person have peculiar means of knowing a fact, and make a written entry of that fact which is against his interest at the time, it is evidence of the fact as between third persons after his death.An entry was made by a man midwife…
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Hotchpot
Definition of Hotchpot A medley of ingredients ; a fund derived from several sources. Where a fund is appointed to be divided amongst a class and one of the class has already received a special or appointed share, that person may be required to add his special share to the fund before it is […]
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Highway
Definition of Highway A road or way open to the public as of right for the purpose of passing and repassing. The ownership of the soil may be private. A highway may be founded on prescription, statute, or by dedication to the public by the owner. See Vovaston v. Payne Browse You might be […]
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House Of Commons
Definition of House Of Commons The Lower House of Parliament, consisting of representatives of the counties, cities, boroughs and universities; 615 in all. See Committee of the Whole House Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription House Of Commons in the […]
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Hill V. Bigge
Definition of Hill V. Bigge ((1841), 3 Moo. P. C. C. 465). The appellant, the Governor of Trinidad, was sued in the Civil Court of the island for a debt incurred in England before his appointment. Jleld, that an action will lie against the Governor in the Court of his colony. The authority of […]
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House Of Lords
Definition of House Of Lords The Upper House of Parliament ; the assembly of the lords, spiritual and temporal. The lords spiritual are the two archbishops and the senior bishops of the Church of England. The lords temporal are (1) the peers of England, of Great Britain and of the United […]
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Hire-purchase Agreement
Definition of Hire-purchase Agreement An agreement by which the owner of a chattel lets it out on hire and undertakes that it shall become the property of the hirer when the hirer has paid the last of a certaiii number of payments specified in the agreement. Until then no property in the […]