The chief of a company; the head man of a corporation. … [Read more...]
HARDHEIDIS
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...]
HANDBILL
A written or printed notice displayed to Inform those concerned of something to be done. … [Read more...]
HANTELOD
In old European law. An arrest, or attachment. Spelman. … [Read more...]
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...]