Category: H

A small coasting vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used In conveying passengersand goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. Webster.

The master or captain of a hoy.

A petty dealer and retailer of small articles of provisions, particularlyfarm and garden produce. Mays v. Cincinnati, 1 Ohio St 272; Lebanon County v. Kline,2 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 622.

In old pleading. Hitherto. 2 Mod. 24.

In old English law. An acquittauce for an assault upon a trespassingservant. Supposed to be a mistake or misprint in Fleta for “hincgeld.” Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47,

the name given to the legislative body of the United States Government whose members are elected every 2 years.

In old English law. A loud outcry with which felons (such as robbers,burglars, and murderers) were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it werebound to take up, and join in the pursuit, until the malefactor was taken. Bract fols.1156, 124; 4 Bl. Comm. 293.A written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring allofficers and people to assist in retaking him. 3 How. State Tr. 386.

A fee paid for housing goods by a carrier, or at a wharf, etc.

In Spanish law. A measure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxencan plow in one day. 2 White, Recop. (38,) 49; Strother v. Lucas, 12 Pet. 443, 9 L. Ed.1137.

In criminal law. Breaking and entering a dwelling-house withIntent to commit any felony therein. If done by night, it comes under the definition of”burglary.”