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iness of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper. Blackstone.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

An allowance of wood to a tenant for repairing his hedges or fences; hedgebote. See Bote. Blackstone.

borsholder, boroughhead, boroughholder, and sometimes tithingman. See Borsholder. [Eng.] Blackstone.

anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

al of Christianity, but of some its essential doctrines, publicly and obstinately avowed. Blackstone.

The leader or commander of an army; also, a marshal. Blackstone.

ary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant. Blackstone. Bouvier. Heriot custom, a heriot depending on usage. -- Heriot service (Law), a heriot due by reservation in a grant or lease of lands. Spelman. Blackstone.

The climbing stem of the hop. Blackstone.

ies, or freemen. Hundred court, a court held for all the inhabitants of a hundred. [Eng.] Blackstone.

n who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife. The husband and wife are one person in law. Blackstone.

The state of being illegitimate. Blackstone.

removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus (Med.), an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable feasts (Eccl.), feasts which occur on a certain day of the year and do not depend…

parchment, called a panel; to form or enroll, as a list of jurors in a court of justice. Blackstone.

To have time before pleading; to have delay for mutual adjustment. Blackstone.

To hold a conference or consultation. Blackstone.

The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

s an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackstone.

n prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.

have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. True policy, as well as good faith, in my opinion, binds us to improve the occasion. Washington.…