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HORNBOOK LAW

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Black letter law; legal principles so well established that they don't even need to be explained further. … [Read more...]

HOOKLAND

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Land plowed and sown every year. … [Read more...]

HORNGELD

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Sax. In old English law. A tax within a forest, paid for horned beasts. Cowell; Blount … [Read more...]

HOPCON

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In old English law. A valley. Cowell. … [Read more...]

HORNING

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In Scotch law. "Letters of horning" is the name given to a judicial process issuing on the decree of a court, by which the debtor is summoned to perform his obligation in terms of the decree, the consequence of his failure to do so being liability to arrest and Imprisonment It was anciently the custom to proclaim a debtor who had failed to obey such process a rebel or outlaw, … [Read more...]

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