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HAUBER

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O. Fr. A high lord; a great baron. Spelman. … [Read more...]

HAY-BOTE

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Another name for "hedge-bote," being one of the estovers allowed to a tenant for life or years, namely, material for repairing the necessary hedges or fences of his grounds. 2 Bl. Comm. 35; 1 Washb. Real Prop. 129. … [Read more...]

HAYWARD

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In old English law. An officer appointed in the lord's court to keep a common herd of cattle of a town; so called because he was to see that they did not break or Injure the hedges of inclosed grounds. His duty was also to impound trespassing cattle, and to guard against pound-breaches. Kltch. 46; Cowell. Adams y. Nichols, 1 Aikens (Vt) 319. … [Read more...]

HAUL

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The use of this word, instead of the statutory word "carry" in an indictment charging that the defendant "did feloniously steal, take, and haul away" certain personalty, will not render the indictment bad, the words being in one sense equivalent. Spittorff v. State, 108 Ind. 171, 8 N. E. 911. … [Read more...]

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