Tag: HE

  • Heaven V. Pender

    Definition of Heaven V. Pender ((1883), L. R. 11 Q. B. D. 503). The plaintiff, a painter, was injured owing to defective staging while painting the hull of a ship. Held, that the defendant who erected the staging had invited the plaintiff to use the staging, and as the plaintiff’s injury had […]

  • Head V. Tattersall

    Definition of Head V. Tattersall ((1871), L. R. 7 Ex. 7). If a contract of sale provides that if the thing sold does not answer to a warranty given with respect to it, the purchaser may return it within a specified time, he may do so, and is not liable for injury occurring to it…

  • Heirlooms

    Definition of Heirlooms Such goods and personal chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, go by special custom to the heir or devisee of the owner, along with the inheritance, and not to his executor. A tenant for life may sell heirlooms, and the money arising from the sale is capital […]

  • Headborough

    Definition of Headborough The chief of the ten men who made up a frankpledge ; replaced in the fourteenth century by the petty constable. See Constables Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Headborough in the Dictionaries, Headborough in our legal […]

  • Heralds' College Or The College Of Arms

    Definition of Heralds’ College Or The College Of Arms Incorporated by Richard III in 1483. It is under the jurisdiction of the Earl Marshal and has a jurisdiction as to armorial bearings and matters of pedigree Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription […]

  • Heaven V. Pender

    Definition of Heaven V. Pender ((1883), L. R. 11 Q. B. D. 503). The plaintiff, a painter, was injured owing to defective staging while painting the hull of a ship. Held, that the defendant who erected the staging had invited the plaintiff to use the staging, and as the plaintiff’s injury had […]

  • Heriot

    Definition of Heriot The horses and arms of a tenant, or, if he were a villein, the best beast to which the lord was entitled by custom on the death of his tenant.Heriot service consists of the right of heriot where the tenant dies seised of an estate of inheritance, and can only exist as…

  • Hebdon V. West

    Definition of Hebdon V. West ((1863), 3 B. & s. 579). Held, that where there are several policies of assurance effected with different offices, the insured can recover no more from the insurers, whether on one policy or many, than the amount of his insurable interest Browse You might be […]

  • Heir Apparent

    Definition of Heir Apparent A person who will be heir to his ancestor if he survives him. Properly he is not heir until after the death of his ancestor, for nemo est haeres viventis. Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Heir Apparent in the […]

  • Heir Presumptive

    Definition of Heir Presumptive A person who would be an heir if the ancestor died immediately, but who is liable to be displaced by the birth of a nearer heir ; e.g., an only daughter Browse You might be interested in these references tools: ResourceDescription Heir Presumptive in the […]