Category: H

A back up part for a computer that is available if the primary one fails.

A management method that states discipline should follow after the incident, give proper warning, be consistent, and be impersonal.

A computer component that can be removed without shutting down the system. AKA hot pluggable.

In old English law. This was a test, in cases of accusation, byhot water; the party accused and suspected being appointed by the judge to put hisarms up to the elbows iu seethlng hot water, which, after sundry prayers and invocations, he did, and was, by the effectwhich followed, judged guilty or innocent, Wharton.

The blending and mixing property belonging to differeift persons, inorder to divide it equally. 2 Bl. Comm. 190.Anciently applied to the mixing and blending of lands given to one daughter in frankmarriage, with those descending to her and her sisters in fee-simple, for the purpose ofdividing the whole equally amoug them; without which the daughter who held in frankmarriage could have no share in the lands in fee-simple. Litt.

An inn ; a public house or tavern ; a house for entertaining strangers ortravelers. St Louis v. Siegrist, 40 Mo. 594; People v. Jones, 54 Barb. (X. Y.) 316; Cromwellv. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 19.Synonyms. In law, there is no difference whatever between the terms “hotel,” “inn,”and “tavern.” except that in some states a statutory definition has been given to theword “hotel,” especially with reference to the grant of licenses to sell liquor, as, that it6hall contain a certain number of separate rooms for the entertainment of guests, orthe like. But none of the three terms mentioned will include a boarding house (becausethat is a place kept for the entertainment of permanent boarders, while a hotel or inn isfor travelers and transient guests), nor a lodging house (because the keeper thereofdoes not furnish food for guests, which is one of the requisites of a hotel or inn), nor arestaurant or eating-house, which furnishes food onlv and not lodging. See Martin v.State Ins. Co., 44 X. J. I jaw. 4S5, 43 Am. Rep. 397 ; In re Liquor Licenses, 4 Montg.Co. Law Rep’r (Pa.) 79; Kelly v. Excise Com’rs. 54 How. Prac. (X. Y.) 331: Carpenter v.Tavlor. 1 Hilt. (X. Y.) 193; Cromwell r. Stephens, 2 Daly (X. Y.) 23.

The twenty-fourth part of a natural day; sixty minutes of time.

In Scotch practice. The hour when a court is met. 3 How. State Tr. 603.

1. A dwelling; a building designed for the habitation and residence of men.”House” means, presumptively, a dwelling- house ; a building divided into floors andapartments, with four walls, a roof, and doors and chimneys; but it does not necessarily mean precisely this. Daniel v. Coulsting, 7 Man. &C. 125; Surman v. Darley, 14 Mees. & W. 183.”House” is not synonymous with “dwelling- house.” While the former is used in abroader and more comprehensive sense than the latter, it has a narrower and morerestricted meaning than the word “building.” State v. Garity, 46 N. H. 61.In the devise of a house, the word “house” is synonymous with “messuage,” audconveys all that comes within the curtilage. Rogers v. Smith, 4 I’a. 93.2. A legislative assembly, or (where the bicameral system obtains) one of the twobranches of the legislature; as the “house of lords,” “house of representatives.” Also aquorum of a legislative body. See South- worth v. Palmyra & J. R. Co., 2 Mich. 2S7.3. The name “house” is also given to some collections of meu other than legislativebodies, to some public institutions, and (colloquially) to mercantile firms or joint-stock companies.

In Norman and old English law, this was the title of the officer in amonastery charged with the entertainment of guests. It was also applied (until aboutthe time of Queen Elizabeth) to an innkeeper, and afterwards, when the keeping ofhorses at livery became a distinct occupation, to the keeper of a livery stable, and then(under the modern form “ostler”) to the groom in charge of the stables of an inn.Cromwell v. Stephens, 2 Daly (N. Y.) 20. In tlie language of railroading, an “ostler” or”hostler” at a roundhouse is one whose duty it is to receive locomotives as they come infrom tlie road, care for them in the roundhouse, and have them cleaned and ready fordeparture when wanted. Railroad Co. v. Mas- sig, 50 111. App. 000; Railroad Co. v.Ashling, 34 111. App. 105; Grannis v. Railroad Co., 81 Iowa, 444, 40 N. W. 1007.