In old Scotch law. Theft or robbery. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt 2, pp. 26, 89. … [Read more...]
HERISTAL
The station of an army; the place where a camp is pitched. Spelman. … [Read more...]
HERESLITA, HERESSA, HERESSIZ
A hired soldier who departs without license, 4 Inst 128. … [Read more...]
HERITABLE
Capable of being taken by descent A , term chiefly used in Scotch law, where it enters into several phrases. Heritable bond. A bond for a sum of money to which is added, for further security of the creditor, a conveyance of land or heritage to be held by the creditor as pledge. 1 Ross, Conv. 76; 2 Ross, Conv. 324. Heritable Jurisdictions. Grants of criminal jurisdiction … [Read more...]
HEMOLDBORH, OR HELMELBORCH
A title to possession. The admission of this old Norse term into the laws of the Conqueror is difficult to be accounted for; it ( is not found in any Anglo-Saxon law extant. Wharton. … [Read more...]