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In English law. The feast of All Saints, on the 1st of November; one of the cross-quarters of the year, was computed from Halimas to Candlemas. Wharton. … [Read more...] about HALIMAS

A moiety; one of two equal parts of anything susceptible of division. Prentiss v. Brewer, 17 Wis. 644, 86 Am. Dec 730; Hartford Iron Min. Co. v. Cambridge Min. Co. 80 Mich. 491, 45 N. W. 351; Cogan v. Cook, 22 Minn. 142; Dart v. Barbour, 32 Mich. 272. Used in law in various compound terms, in substantially the same sense, as follows. Half blood. See BLOOD. Half-brother, … [Read more...] about HALF

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...] about HALL

(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...] about HALF BLOOD

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...] about HALLAGE