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HYPOTHETICAL

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Theoretical, based on assumptions which are not necessarily true and use to determine a potential outcome. … [Read more...]

HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION

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A combination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances, stated In such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an expert is asked, by way of evidence on a trial. … [Read more...]

HYPOTHETICAL YEARLY TENANCY

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The basis, in England, of rating lands and hereditaments to the poor-rate, and to other rates and taxes that are expressed to be leviable or assessable in like manner as the poor-rate. … [Read more...]

HYRNES

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In old English law. A parish. … [Read more...]

HYSTERIA

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A paroxysmal disease or disorder of the nervous system, more common in females than males, not originating in any anatomical lesion, due to psychic rather than physical causes, and attended, in the acute or convulsive form, by extraordinary manifestations of secondary effects of extreme nervousness. Hysteria is a state in which ideas control the body and produce morbid changes … [Read more...]

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