A term applied in the civil law to cases where a law was repeated, or laid down in the same terms or to the same effect, more than once. Cases of iteration and repetition. 2 Kent, Comm. 489, note. … [Read more...]
HOMINE CAPTO IN WITHERNAM
Engl. law.. The name of a writ directed to the sheriff, and commanding him to take one who has taken any bondsman, and conveyed him out of the country, so that he cannot be replevied. Vide Withernam; Thesaurus, Brev. 63. … [Read more...]
HOMOSEXUAL
A person who is attracted to another person of the same gender. … [Read more...]
HOMINE CAPTO IN WITHERNAMIUM
A writ to take him that had taken any bond man or woman, and led him or her out of the country, so that he or she could not be replevied according to law. Reg. Orig. 79. … [Read more...]
HONDHABEND
Sax. Having in hand. See HANDHABEND. … [Read more...]