In old practice. To remain undetermined. "It has hung long enough; it is time it were made an end of." Holt, C. J.. 1 Show. 77. Thus, the present participle means pending; during the pendency. "If the tenant alien, hanging the precipe." Co. Litt. 266a, … [Read more...] about HANG
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HARBORING A CRIMINAL
The hiding of a criminal suspect or fugitive of justice to prevent the criminal suspect from being found and captured. … [Read more...] about HARBORING A CRIMINAL
HAMMER
Metaphorically, a forced sale or sale at public auction. "To bring to the hammer," to put up for sale at auction. "Sold under the hammer," sold by an officer of the law or by an auctioneer. … [Read more...] about HAMMER
HANGING
In criminal law. Suspension by the neck; the mode of capital punishment used in England from time immemorial, and generally adopted In the United States. 4 Bl. Comm. 463. Hanging in chains. In atrocious cases it was at one time usual, in England, for the court to direct a murderer, after execution, to be hanged upon a gibbet in chains near the place where the murder was … [Read more...] about HANGING
HARBORING AN ALIEN
The hiding of a person with no right to be in the United States to prevent the alien from being found and deported. … [Read more...] about HARBORING AN ALIEN