A building or room of considerable size, used as a place for the meeting of public assemblies, conventions, courts, etc. In English law. A name given to many manor-houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion-house. Cowell. … [Read more...]

(A) Siblings who share only a common parent (step-siblings), a half-brother or half-sister. (B) parentage, kindred. When persons have only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood. For example, if John marry Sarah and has a son by that marriage, and after Sarah's death he marry Maria, and has by her another son, these children are of the half-blood; whereas two of the … [Read more...]

In old English law. A fee or toll due for goods or merchandise vended in a hall. Jacob. A toll due to the lord of a fair or market for such commodities as were Tended In the common hall of the place. Cowell; Blount. … [Read more...]

money. A copper coin of the United States, of the value of one two-hundredth part of a dollar, or five mills. It weighs eighty-four grains. Act of January 18, 1837. … [Read more...]

In Spanish law. The finding and taking possession of something which previously had no owner, and which thus becomes the property of the flrst occupant. Las Partidas, 3, 5, 28; 5, 48, 49 ; 5, 20, 50. … [Read more...]