Category: H

A bond given in the contract of bottomry or respondentia

An instrument for measuring the density of liuids. Being immersed iuliuids, as iu water, briue, beer, brandy, etc., it determines the proportion of theirdensity, or their specific gravity, aud theuce their quality. See Rev. St U. S. i 2018 (U. S.Comp. St 1001, p. 1027.)

In French law. Hypothecation ; a mortgage on real property; theright vested in a creditor by the assignment to him of real estate as security for thepayment of his debt, whether or not it be accompanied by possession. See Civ. CodeLa. art 3360.It corresponds to the mortgage of real property in English law, and is a real charge,following the property into whosesoever hands it comes. It may be legale, as in thecase of the charge which the state has over the lands of its accountants, or which amarried woman has over those of her husband; judiciaire, when it is the result of ajudgment of a court of justice ; and conventionale, when it is the result of anagreement of the parties. Brown.

Lit Iu the civil law. Winter. Dig. 43, 20, 4, 34. Written, in some ofthe old books, “yems.” Fleta, lib. 2, c. 73, S

A supposition, assumption, or theory; a theory set up by the prosecution,on a criminal trial, or by the defense, as an explanation of the facts in evidence,and a ground for inferring guilt or innocence, as the case may be, or asindicating a probable or possible motive for the crime.

This term describes the piece of membrane that covers the entrance to the vagina that is found in virgins. See maidenhead.

A combination of assumed or proved facts and circumstances,stated in such form as to constitute a coherent and specific situation or state of facts, upon which the opinion of an expert is asked, by way of evidence on a trial. Howard v. People, 185 111. 552, 57 N. E. 441; People v. Durrant, 116 Cal. 216, 48 Pac. 85; Cowley v. People, 83 N. Y. 464, 38 Am. Rep. 464; Stearns v. Field, 90 N. Y.

“A married man; one who has a lawful wife living. The correlative of “”wife.””Etymologically, the word signified the “”house bond;”” the man who, according toSaxon ideas and institutions, held around him the family, for whom he was in law responsible.

A fixed income security that has derivatives written into its contract. They change how returns and risks are calculated. This is also called callable, putable, warrant, and convertible bonds. Or a structured note.

the principle where a husband and a wife can’t reveal any communications that passed between them to a third party.