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Hit and Run
When a motorist involved in an accident flees the scene.
HIT RATE
The sale in a percent of calls or visits and enquiries recieved. AKA batting average or conversion rate.
HIT THE BID
A contract a dealer uses to sell secirites to the highest bidder from another dealer. Compare this term to take the offer .
HIT THE RIBBON
A phrase that describes a trade so it shows up on a ticker. I was stared when ticker tape or ribbon was used.
HIT-AND-RUN STATUTES
These are the laws that forbid a person a person from laving the scene of an accident.
HITCHMENT BILL OF LADING (B/L)
A bill of lading for shipments to be loaded in two or more ports. Refer to optional discharge bill of lading.
HITCHMENT CARGO
Goods added to a shipment sent to the same party going to the same port.
HITHERTO
In legal use, this term always restricts the matter in connection withwhich it is employed to a period of time already passed. Mason v. Jones, 13 Barb. (N.Y.) 479.
HIWISC
In old English law . A hide of land.
HLAF ffiTA
Sax. A servant fed at his master’s cost
HLAFORD
Sax.A lord. 1 Spence, Ch. 30.
HLAFORDSOCNA
Sax. A lord’s protection. Du Cange.
HLAFORDSWICE
Sax. In Saxon law. The crime of betraying one’s lord, (proditiodomini;) treason. Crabb, Eng. Law, 59, 301.
HLASOCNA
Sax. The benefit of the law. Du Cange.
HLOTHBOTE
In Saxou law. A fine for being present at an unlawful assembly .Spelman.
HLOTHE
In Saxon law. An unlawful assembly from eight to thirty-five, inclusive.Cowell.
HOASTMEN
In English law . An ancient gild or fraternity at Newcastle-upon- Tyne,who dealt iu sea coal. St. 21 Jac. I. c. 3.
HOBBIT
A measure of weight in use in Wales, equal to 108 pounds, being made upof four Welsh pecks of 42 pounds each. Hughes v. Humphreys, 20 Eng. L. & Eq. […]
HOBBLERS
In old English law . Light horsemen or bowmen; also certain tenants,bound by their tenure to maintain a little light horse for giving notice of any invasion, orsuch like peril, […]
HOC
Lit. This. Hoc intuitu, with this expectation . Hoc loco, in this place. Hocnomine, in this name. Hoc titulo. under this title. Hoc voce, under this word.
HOC PARATUS EST VERIFICARE
Lat. This he is ready to verify. Hoc servabitur quod Initio convenit.This shall be preserved which is useful in the beginning. Dig. 50, 17, 23; Bract. 736.
HOC QUIDEM PERQUAM DURUM EST, SED ITA LEX SCRIPTA EST
Lat. (This indeed is exceedingly hard, but so the law is written; such is the written or positive law .) Anobservation quoted by Black- stone as used by Ulpian in […]
HOCCUS SALTIS
A hoke, hole, or lesser pit of salt. Cowell.
HOCK-TUESDAY MONEY
This was a duty given to the landlord that his tenants andbondmen might solemnize tlie day on which the English conquered the Danes, beingthe second Tuesday after Easter week. Cowell.