In old Scotch law. Lions; coins formerly of the value of three half-pence. 1 Pltc Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 64, note. … [Read more...] about HARDHEIDIS
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HANDBILL
A written or printed notice displayed to Inform those concerned of something to be done. … [Read more...] about HANDBILL
HANTELOD
In old European law. An arrest, or attachment. Spelman. … [Read more...] about HANTELOD
HARDSHIP
To suffer a difficulty, an oppression. The severity with which a proposed construction of the law would bear upon a particular case, founding, sometimes, an argument against such construction, which is otherwise termed the "argument ab inconvenienti." … [Read more...] about HARDSHIP
HANDBOROW
In Saxon law. A hand pledge; a name given to the nine pledges in a decennary or friborg; the tenth or chief, being called "headborow" (q. v.) So called as being an inferior pledge to the chief. Spelman. … [Read more...] about HANDBOROW