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

A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground. The word “farmer” iscolloquially used as synonymous with “husbandman,” but originally meant a tenant whocultivates leased ground.

In old English law . Husbandry. Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 356.

Agriculture ; cultivation of the soil for food; farming, in the sense ofoperating land to raise provisions. Simons v. Lovell, 7 lleisk. (Tenn.) 510; McCue v.Tunstead, 05 Cal. 500, 4 […]

In Saxon law. The crime of housebreaking or burglary. Crabb, Eng. Law, 50, 30S.

In old English law . A house servant or domestic; a man of thehousehold. Spelman.A king’s vassal, thane, or baron; an earl’s man or vassal. A term of frequent occurrencein […]

He who holds house and laud. Bract. 1. 3, t 2, c. 10.

In old records. House rent; or a tax or tribute laid upon a house. Cowell; Blount.

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 […]

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. […]

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 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 . […]

A network combining market and regulated ECNs.

A corporation owned by family interest that has illiquid capital markets, inactive corporate control, and nascent regulations. Also called a relationship or market model .

In old English law . Hide; skin. A measure of land, containing, according tosome, a hundred acres, which quantity is also assigned to it iu the Dialoyus deSvaccurio. It seems, […]

See HIDAGE.

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 […]

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

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

the term given to the induced state of a person who is responsive to suggestion.

In medical jurisprudence . A psychic or mental state rendering the patientsusceptible to suggestion at the will of another.The hypnotic state is an abnormal condition of the mind and senses, […]