Category: H

A colloquial expression to designate a bribe to hinder information;pay to secure silence.

Council; court; tribunal. Apparently so called from being held within abuilding, at a time when other courts were held iu the opeu air. It was a local court.The county court iu the city of London bore this name. There were hustings at York,Winchester, Lincoln, aud iu other places similar to the London hustings. Also the raisedplace from which candidates for seats in parliament address the constitueucy, on theoccasion of their nomination. Wharton.In Virginia, some of the local courts are called “hustings,” as in the city of Richmond.Smith v. Com., 0 Grat (Va.)

Hue and cry. See HUE AND CRY.

Taxes. Mon. Angl. 1. 5S6.

In old English law. Augury; divination.

In old English law. The season for sowing winter grain, betweenMichaelmas and Christmas. The land on which such grain was sown. The grain itself ;winter grain or winter corn. Cowell.

A mongrel; an animal formed of the union of different species, or differentgenera; also (metaphorically) a human being born of the union of persons of differentraces.

A jury so irreconcilably divided in opinion that they cannot agree upon any verdict.

A domestic; one of a family.

In English criminal law. A kind of sledge, on which convicted felons weredrawn to the place of execution.