A word of futurity, always used in statutes and legal documents as indicative of future time, excluding both the present and the past Chapman v. Holmes, 10 N. J. Law, 26; Tremont A S. Mills v. Lowell, 165 Mass. 265, 42 N. E. 1184; Dobbins v. Cragin, 50 N. J. Eq. 640, 23 Atl. 172; Thomas v. Mueller, 106 111. 43. … [Read more...]
HELSING
A Saxon brass coin, of the value of a half-penny. … [Read more...]
HERBAGE
In English law. An easement or liberty, which consists in the right to pasture cattle on another's ground. Feed for cattle in fields and pastures. Bract, fol. 222; Co. Litt 46; Shep. Touch. 97. A right to herbage does not include a right to cut grass, or dig potatoes, or pick apples. Simpson v. Coe, 4 N. H. 303. … [Read more...]
HEREBANNUM
In old English law. A proclamation summoning the army into the field. A mulct or fine for not joining the army when summoned. Spelman. A tax or tribute for the support of the army. Du Cange. … [Read more...]
HEMIPLEGIA
In medical jurisprudence. Unilateral paralysis; paralysis of one side of the body, commonly due to a lesion in the brain, but sometimes originating from the spinal cord, as in "Brown-Sequard's paralysis," unilateral paralysis with crossed anceatheaia. In the cerebral form, the hemiplegia is sometimes "alternate" or crossed, that is, occurring on the opposite side of the body … [Read more...]