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sums of money, for any child or children 

 of any person, other than the heir at law, 

 in pursuance of any marriage contract, or 

 agreement in writing, bona fde made be- 

 fore such marriage ; the same and every 

 of them shall be in full force, and the 

 game manors, &c. may be holden and en- 

 joyed by every such person, his heirs, 

 executors, administrators, and assigns, 

 for whom the said limitation, appoint- 

 ment, devise, or disposition, was made, 

 and by his trustee, his heirs, executors, 

 administrators, and assigns, for such es 

 tate or interest as shall be so limited or 

 appointed, devised or disposed, until 

 sucli debt or debts, portion or portions, 

 shall be raised, paid, and satisfied. And 

 every devisee made liable by this act 

 shall be liable and chargeable in the same 

 manner as the heir at law, by force of 

 this act, notwithstanding the lands, tene- 

 ments, and hereditaments, to him or them 

 devised, shall be aliened before the action 

 brought. In the construction of this sta- 

 tute it has been held, that though a man 

 is prevented from defeating his creditors 

 by will, that yet any settlement or dispo- 

 sition he shall make in his life-time of his 

 lands, whether voluntary or not, will be 

 good against bond creditors ; for that was 

 not provided against by the statute, 

 whicn only took care to secure such 

 creditors from any imposition, which 

 might he supposed in a man's last sick- 

 ness; but if he gave away his estate in his 

 life-time, this prevented the descent of so 

 much to the heir, and consequently took 

 away their remedy against him, who was 

 only liable in respect of the lands de- 

 scended ; and as a bond is no lien what- 

 soever on the lands in the hands of the 

 obligor, much less can it be so, when they 

 are given away to a stranger. 



HKIR looms, in law, are such goods and 

 personal chattels, as, contrary to the na- 

 ture of chattels, shall go by special cus- 

 tom to the heir, along with the inherit- 

 ance, and not to the executor of the last 

 proprietor. 



HEISTERA, in botany, so called in 

 honour of Laurence Heister, a genus of 

 the Decandria Monogynia class and order. 

 Natural order of Holoracese. Aurantia, 

 Jussieu. Essential character ; calyx five- 

 cleft ; petals five ; drupe with a very large 

 coloured calyx. There is but one species, 

 viz. H. coccinea, a native of Martinico, 

 in close woods near torrents. The French 

 inhabitants call it bois perdrix, birds be- 

 ing very fond of the fruit. 



HELENIUM, in botany, a genus of the 

 vSyngenesia Polygamia Superfiua class 



and order. Natural order of Composite 

 Discoideae. Corymbiferae, Jussieu. There 

 are two species. These plants are na- 

 tives of America, where they grow wild, 

 in great plenty, in the woods and other 

 shady places where the ground is moist. 



HELIACAL, in astronomy, a term ap- 

 plied to the rising or setting of the stars, 

 or, more strictly speaking, to their emer- 

 sion out of and immersion into the rays 

 and superior splendour of the sun. A 

 star is said to rise heliacally, when, after 

 having been in conjunction with the sun, 

 and on that account invisible, it comes to 

 be at such a distance from him, as to be 

 seen in the morning before sun-rising, 

 the sun, by his apparent motion, receding 

 from the star towards the east ; on the 

 contrary, the heliacal setting is when the 

 sun approaches so near a star, as to hide 

 it with his beams, which preveat the faint- 

 er light of the star from being perceiv- 

 ed, so that the terms apparition and oc- 

 cultation would be more proper than ri- 

 sing and setting. 



All the fixed stars in the zodiac, and also 

 the superior planets, Mars, Jupiter, and 

 Saturn, rise heliacally in the morning, a 

 little before sun-rising, and a few days 

 after they have set cosmically. Again, 

 they set heliacally in the evening, a little 

 before their achronycal setting. But the 

 moon, whose motion eastward is always 

 quicker than the apparent motion of the 

 sun, rises heliacally in the evening, after 

 the new moon ; and sets heliacally in the 

 morning, when old and approaching to a 

 conjunction with the sun. 



The inferior planets, Venus and Mer- 

 cury, which sometimes seem to go west- 

 ward from the sun, and sometimes again 

 have a quicker motion eastward, rise 

 heliacally in the morning, when they are 

 retrograde ; but when direct in their 

 motions, they rise heliacally in the even- 

 ing. The heliacal rising or setting of the 

 moon happens when she is seventeen de- 

 grees distant from the sun : but for the 

 other planets, twenty degrees are requir- 

 ed ; and for the fixed stars, more or less, 

 according to their magnitude. 



HELIANTHUS, in batany, sun-fotoer, 

 a genus of the Syngenesia Polygamia 

 Frustranea class and order. Natural or- 

 der of Composite Oppositifoliae. Corym- 

 biferae, Jussieu. Essential character: 

 calyx imbricate, somewhat* squarrose ; 

 down two-leaved ; receptacle chaffy, flat. 

 There are twelve species. These are 

 hardy herbaceous plants, most of them 

 tali and large, all perennial excepting 



