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HUSBANDMAN

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A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word "farmer" is colloquially used as synonymous with "husbandman," but originally meant a tenant who cultivates leased ground. … [Read more...]

HYBRID OFFENSE

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A criminal offense for which a prosecutor has an option of charging the criminal defendant with a lesser or more severe offense, e.g. a summary conviction versus an indictable offense. … [Read more...]

HUSBANDRIA

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In old English law. Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 350. … [Read more...]

HYD

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In old English law. Hide; skin. A measure of land, containing, according to some, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it in the Dialogue de Bcaccario. It seems, however, that the hide varied in different parts of the kingdom. … [Read more...]

HUSBANDRY

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Agriculture; cultivation of the soil for food; farming in the sense of operating land to raise provisions. … [Read more...]

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