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HERITOR

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In Scotch law. A proprietor of land. 1 Karnes, Eq. Pref. … [Read more...]

HEREDITAMENTS

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Things capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, and including not only lands and everything thereon, but also heirlooms, and certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir together with the land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nellis v. Munson, 108 X. Y. 453. 15 N. E. 739; Owens v. Lewis, 46 Ind. 508, 15 Am. Rep. 295; … [Read more...]

HERETUM

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In old records. A court or yard for drawing up guards or military retinue. Cowell. … [Read more...]

HERMANDAD

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In Spanish law. A fraternity formed among different towns and villages to prevent the commission of crimes, and to prevent the abuses and vexations to which they were subjected by men in power. Bouvier. … [Read more...]

HEIRLOOMS

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Such goods and chattels as, contrary to the nature of chattels, shall go by special custom to the heir along with the Inheritance, and not to the executor. The termination "loom" (Sax.) signifies a limb or member ; so that an heirloom is nothing else but a limb or member of the inheritance. They are generally such things as cannot be taken away without damaging or dismembering … [Read more...]

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