| Terms- Habeas Corpus
- Latin: a court petition which orders that a person being detained be produced before a judge for a hearing to decide whether the detention is lawful.
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- Habitual Offender
- A person who is convicted and sentenced for crimes over a period of time and even after serving sentences of incarceration, demonstrates a propensity towards future criminal conduct.
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- Harassment
- Unsolicited words or conduct which tend to annoy, alarm or abuse another person.
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- Hearsay
- Evidence that is offered by a witness of which they do not have direct knowledge but, rather, their testimony is based on what others have said to them.
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- Holograph Will
- A will written entirely in the testator’s handwriting and not witnessed.
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- Homicide
- The act or omission of one human being, which ends the life of another.
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- Hostile Witness
- A party's witness who demonstrates such adversity to answering questions that the trial judge allows leading questions to be put to that witness.
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- Hung Jury
- A jury which is unable to arrive at a required unanimous or near unanimous verdict.
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- Husband-Wife Privilege
- A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law.
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- Homosexuality
- Sexual contact and between two persons of the same sex as man and man or woman and woman.
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- Habitual Residence
- Ordinary residence.
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- Hotchpot
- The mixing of property for the purposing of effecting a proportionate division.
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- Heir
- A beneficiary of a will or an intestacy.
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- Hatch Act
- An American statute which controls political activity of government employees.
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- Hodge's Case
- A rule limiting the use of circumstantial evidence in the trial of a criminal offence.
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- Hue and Cry
- A community fugitive containment strategy of medieval England where a yell went up denouncing a crime and the offender and all within earshot took up the chase.
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- Home Invasion
- A break and enter of occupied residential premises with forced confinement, assault or battery of occupants.
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- Halliday Order
- A special Court order in regards to document disclosure where, in special cases, a lawyer for a litigant, as an officer of the Court, first review documents from specified sources, or at large, and identifies and proposes to set aside and distinguish documents weighed relevancy, for reasons of privilege, privacy, confidentiality, or the potential personal embarrassment of the party given the personal nature of the information in a document.
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- Heresy
- A historic criminal offence comprised of the act of public denial of Christian doctrines.
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- Hereditament
- Something which can be inherited.
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- Himalaya Clause
- A clause in a transportation contract purporting to extend liability limitations which benefit the carrier, to others who act as agents for the carrier such as stevedores or longshoremen.
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- High Seas
- A term of international and maritime law; the open ocean, not part of the exclusive economic zone, territorial sea or internal waters of any state.
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- Human Right
- An individual's statutory right to equal treatment and free from discrimination prohibited by statute and which, generally, provides a civil remedy to provide compensation or to punish such discrimination when it is reported.
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- Hitman Scam
- A consumer scam usually conducted by email in which the recipient is approached by an alleged assassin who seeks money in lieu of completing his task.
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- Hybrid Offence
- A criminal offence for which the prosecutor has the option of charging as an offence punishable by summary conviction or as an indictable offence.
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- Hockey
- A game played on ice in which opposing teams of six players each, try to drive a small black hard rubber disk called a puck into the oppising goal by hitting it with a curved stick.
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- Home-Country Rule
- A form of international agreement in which a host country allows a foreign national to continue to fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of his country of origin even as regards acts or commerce in the host country.
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- Heritable Obligation
- A legal obligation or right which is not extinguished by the death of the person who held those rights, or was liable for the obligation, but are transfered to the estate.
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- Hypothec
- A charge on property upon which an unpaid creditor may enforce payment of the debt.
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- Henson Trust
- A discretionary trust for a person in receipt of social assistance or disability benefits designed to top-up that person's income but without making them ineligible.
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- House Arrest
- The judicial obligation upon an individual, as either part of a pre-trial order or a sentence following conviction of a crime, that the individual be forbidden to leave his or her place of residence except at specified hours.
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- Half-Secret Trust
- A secret trust in which the donor announces the trust but not the objects or the beneficiaries.
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- Heriot
- A right in ancient common law of a land lord, upon the death of his tenant, to pick any beast belonging to the estate of the deceased tenant.
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- Hereditas Jacens
- Latin: an unclaimed estate.
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- Hereditas
- Latin: the estate of a deceased person.
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- Hereditas Damnosa
- Latin: an inheritance that is more of a burden than a benefit.
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- Hiraba
- Muslim law: organized crime such as highway robbery.
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- Hudud
- Muslim law: divine punishments; the category of crimes most egregious and therefore most severely punished.
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- Humanitarian Doctrine
- A principle of tort law which requires an individual to take every action at hand to avoid an accident where peril to another human being is otherwise imminent.
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- Hadley v Baxendale, Rule in
- A rule of contract law which limits the defendant of a breach of contract case to damages which can reasonably be anticipated to flow from the breach.
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- Hostis Humani Generis
- Latin: the enemy of mankind.
Expanded Legal Definition of Hostis Humani Generis
- Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds
- A criteria of immigration law; an unusual, undeserved or disproportionate hardship caused to a person seeking consideration.
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- Hissing
- A common law right given to the audiences of public performances to openly express their opinion of the performance.
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- Hostile Work Environment
- A pattern of ongoing and persistent harassment severe enough to alter the conditions of employment.
Expanded Legal Definition of Hostile Work Environment
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