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HAUT ESTRET

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L. Fr. High street; highway. Yearb. P. 11 Hen. VI. 2. … [Read more...]

HAUTHONER

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In old English law. A man armed with a coat of mail. Jacob. … [Read more...]

HE

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The use of this pronoun in a written instrument, in referring to a person whose Christian name is designated therein by a mere initial, is not conclusive that the person referred to is a male; It may be shown by parol that the person intended is a female. Berniaud v. Beecher, 71 Cal. 38, 11 Pac. 802. He who has committed iniquity shall not save equity. Francis, Max. He who … [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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