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HEAFODWEARD

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In old English law. One of the services to be rendered by a thane, but in what it consisted seems uncertain. … [Read more...]

HEALTH OFFICER

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The name of an officer invested with power to enforce the health laws. The powers and duties of health officers are regulated by local laws. … [Read more...]

HEALER

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One who heals or cures; specifically, one who professes to cure bodily diseases without medicine or any material means, according to the tenets and practices of so-called "Christian Science," whose beliefs and practices, being founded on their religious convictions, are not per se proof of insanity. In re Brush's Will, 35 Misc. Rep. 689, 72 N. Y. Supp. 425. … [Read more...]

HEALTH PLAN

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A benefits plan which provides for health insurance. … [Read more...]

HAVE

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To possess corporally, to be vested with possession. "No one, at common law, was said to have or to be in possession of land, unless it were conveyed to him by the livery of seisin, which gave him the corporal investiture and bodily occupation thereof." BL Law Tracts, 113. Have and hold. A common phrase in conveyancing, derived from the habendum et tenendum of the old common … [Read more...]

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