L. Lat. This is the final agreement. The words with which the foot of a fine commenced. 2 Bl. Comm. 351. … [Read more...]
HAGIA
A hedge. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 273. … [Read more...]
HABITUAL CRIMINAL
By statute in several states, one who is convicted of a felony, having been previously convicted of any crime (or twice so convicted), or who is convicted of a misdemeanor and has previously (in New York) been five times convicted of a misdemeanor. Crim. Code N. Y. 1903, s 510; Rev. St Utah, 1898, 5 4067. In a more general sense, one made subject to police surveillance and … [Read more...]
HAEREDA
In Gothic law. A tribunal answering to the English court-leet. … [Read more...]
H. B.
An abbreviation for house bill, i.e. a bill in the house of representatives, as distinguished from a senate bill. … [Read more...]