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HONOR

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(A) High estimation. A testimony of high estimation. Dignity. Reputation. Dignified respect of character springing from probity, principle, or moral rectitude. A duel is not justified by any insult to our honor. Honor is also employed to signify integrity in a judge, courage in a soldier, and chastity in a woman. To deprive a woman of her honor is, in some cases, punished as a public wrong, and by an action for the recovery of damages done to the relative rights of a husband or a father. Vide Criminal conversation. 2. In England, when a peer of parliament is sitting judicially in that body, his pledge of honor is received instead of an oath; and in courts of equity, peers, peeresses, and lords of parliament, answer on their honor only. But the courts of common law know no such distinction. It is needless to add, that as we are not encumbered by a nobility, there is no such distinction in the United States, all persons being equal in the eye of the law. (B) Eng. law. The seigniory of a lord paramount. (B) contr. To accept a bill of exchange; to pay a bill accepted, or a promissory note, on the day it becomes due.

Law Dictionary – Alternative Legal Definition

(noun) – In English law. A seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount. Also those dignities or privileges, degrees of nobility, knighthood, and other titles, which flow from the crown as the fountain of honor. Wharton. In American law. The customary title of courtesy given to judges of the higher courts, and occasionally to some other officers; as “his honor,” “your honor”. Honor courts. Tribunals held within honors or seigniories. Office of honor. As used in constitutional and statutory provisions” thits term denotes a public office of considerable dignity and importance to which important public trusts or interests are confided but which is not compensated by any salary or fees being thus contrasted with an “office of profit.” See Dickson v. People 17 111. 193.

(verb) – To accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity and according to its tenor. Peterson v. Hubbard, 28 Mich. 199; Clarke v. Cock, 4 Bast, 72; Lucas v. Groning, 7 Taunt. 168. Act of honor. When a bill has been protested, and a third person wishes to take it up, or accept it, for the “honor” (credit) of one or more of the parties, the notary draws up an instrument, evidencing the transaction, which is called by this name.

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