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deliver seisin, Sec. to the plaintiff, the writ 
being habere facias seisinam, or possessionem ; 
and after 'judgment it is not the house of the 
defendant in right and judgment of the law. 
In all cases where the king is party, the 
sheriff, if no door is open, may break the 
party’s house to take him, or to execute 
other process of the king, if he cannot other- 
wise enter; but he ought first to signify the 
cause of his coming, and request the door to 
be opened: and this appears by the statute 
Westm. 1, 17, which is only in affirmance of 
the common law 1 ; and without default in the 
owner, the law will not suffer an house to be 
broken. 
In all cases where the door is open, the 
sheriff may enter and ’make execution at 
the suit of any subject, either of body or 
goods ; but otherwise where the door is shut, 
there he cannot break it to execute process 
at the suit of a subject. 
Though an house is a castle for the owner 
himself and his family, and his own goods* 
See. yet it is no protection for a stranger Hy- 
ing thither, or the goods of such a one, to 
prevent lawful execution ; and therefore in 
such case, after request to enter, and denial, 
the sheriff may break the house. 5 Rep. 91. 
If a person authorized to arrest another 
who is sheltered in an house, is denied quiet- 
ly to enter into it, in order to take him, it 
seems generally to be agreed, that he may 
justify the breaking open of the doors upon 
a capias from the king’s bench or chancery, 
to compel a man to find sureties for the peace 
or good behaviour, or even upon a warrant 
from a justice of the peace for such person. 
So where one known to have committed 
treason, is pursued either with or without a 
warrant, by a constable or private person. 
So where an affray is made in an house in 
the view or hearing of a constable ; or wdiere 
those who have made an affray in his pre- j 
sence fly to an house, and are immediately I 
pursued by him, and he is not suffered to i 
enter in order to suppress the affray in the 
first case, or to apprehend the affrayers in ' 
either case. 2 Haw. 8b, 87. 
A man ought so to use his house as not to ■ 
damnify his neighbour: and a man may com- I 
pel another to repair his house in several 
cases by the writ de doino reparanda. 1 Sulk. 
3f>0. 
If a man builds his house so close to mine, 
that his roof overhangs my roof, and throws 
the water of his roof upon mine, this is a nut- 1 
sance for which an action will lie. 
But depriving one of a mere matter of, 
pleasure, as of a fine prospect, by building a | 
wall or the like; this, as it abridges nothing i 
really convenient or necessary, is no injury I 
to the sufferer, and is therefore not an action- 
able nuisance. 3 Black. 217. 
HOUSEHOLD, the whole of a family 
considered collectively, including the mis- 
tress, children, and servants : but the house- 
hold of a sovereign prince includes only the 
officers and domestics belonging to his pa- 
lace. 
The principal officers of his majesty’s 
household are, the lord steward, lord cham- 
berlain of the household, the groom of the 
ctole, the master of the great wradrobe, and 
the master of the horse. The civil govern- 
ment of the king’s house is under the care of 
the lord steward of the king’s household, who, 
as he is the chief officer, all his commands j 
are observed and obeyed. Ilis authority ex- 
tends over all the other officers and servants, 
except those of his majesty’s chapel, cham- 
ber, and stable; and he is the judge of all 
crimes commuted either within the court or 
the verge. Under him are the treasurer of 
the household, the comptroller, cofferer, the 
master of the household, the clerks ot the 
green-cloth, and the officers and servants be- 
longing to the accounting-house, the mar- 
shalsea, the verge, the king’s kitchen, the 
household kitchen, the acatery, bakehouse, 
pantry, buttery, cellar, pastry, &c. Next 
to the lord steward is the lord chamberlain of 
the household, who has under him the vice- 
chamberlain, the treasurer, and comptroller 
of the chamber ; 48 gentlemen of the privy 
chamber, 12 of whom wait quarterly, and 
two of them lie every night in the privy 
chamber; the gentleman usher, the grooms 
of the great chamber, the pages of the pre- 
sence chamber ; the mace-bearers, cup-bear- 
ers, carvers, musicians, &c. 
The groom of the stole has under him the 
eleven other lords of the bed chamber, who 
wait weekly in the bed chamber, and by 
turns lie there a-nights on a pallat-bed ; and 
also the grooms of the bed-chamber, the 
pages of the bed chamber and back stairs, 
&c. 
The master or keeper of the great ward- 
robe lias under him a deputy, comptroller, 
clerk of the robes, brusher, &c. and a num- 
ber of tradesmen and artificers, who are all 
sworn servants to the king. 
The master of the horse has under his com- 
mand the equerries, pages, footmen, grooms, 
coachmen, farriers, sadlers, and all the other 
officers and tradesmen employed in his ma- 
jesty’s stables. 
Next to the civil list of the king’s court 
is the military, consisting of the band of gen- 
tlemen pensioners, the yeomen of the guard, 
and the troops of the household; of which the 
two first guard the Cing above stairs. 
When the king dines in public, he is wait- 
ed upon at table by his majesty’s cup-bearers, 
carvers, and gentlemen sewers, the musicians 
playing all the time. The dinner is brought 
up by the yeomen of the guard, and the gen- 
tlemen sewers set the dishes in order. The 
carvers cut for the king, and the cup-bearers 
serve him the drink with one knee on the 
ground, after he has first tasted it in the 
cover. 
HOUSTONIA, a genus of the monogynia 
order, in the tetrandria class of plants, and 
in the natural method ranking under the 47th 
order, stellat&\ The corolla is monopeta- 
lous and funnel-shaped; the capsule bilocu- 
lar, dispermous, superior. There are two 
species, shrubs of America. 
IIOUTTYNIA, a genus of the class and 
order polyandria polygynia. The calyx is 
four-leaved; corolla none; stamina mixed 
with the pistils, seven about each gem. There 
is one species, an herb of the East Indies, 
having the habit of a polygonum. 
HUDSONIA, a genus of the monogynia 
order, in the dodecandria class of plants. 
There is no corolla ; the calyx is pentaphyl- 
lous and tubular ; there are 15 stamina; the 
capsule is unilocular, trivalvular, and trisper- 
mous. There is one species, a shrub of Vir- 
ginia. 
I1UE AND CRY, is the antient common 
law process after felons, and such as have 
dangerously wounded any person, or assault- 
ed any one with intent to rob him ; and it 
has received great countenance and autho- 
rity by several acts of parliament. In any of 
which cases, the party grieved, or any other, 
may resort to the constable of the vill ; and, 
1 , give him such reasonable assurances there- 
of as the nature oi the case will bear : 2. if he 
knows the name of him that did it, he must 
tell the constable the same: 3. if he knows it 
not, but can describe him, he must describe 
him, his person, or his habit, or his house, or 
such circumstances as he knows, which may 
conduce to the discovery: 4. if the thing is 
done in the night, so that he knows none of 
these circumstances, he must mention the 
number of persons, or the way they took: 
5. if none of all these can be discovered, as 
where a robbery, or burglary, or other felo- 
ny, is committed in the night, yet they are 
to acquaint the constable with the fact, and 
desire him to search his town for suspected 
persons, and to make hue and cry after such 
as may probably be suspected, as being per- 
sons vagrant in the same night ; for many 
circumstances may happen to be useful for 
discovering a malefactor, which cannot at 
first be found out. 
For the levying of hue and cry, although 
it is a good course to have a justice’s warrant, 
where time will permit, in order to prevent 
causeless hue and cry; yet it is not neces- 
sary nor always convenient, for the felon 
may escape before the warrant is obtained. 
And upon hue and cry levied against any 
person, or where any hue and cry comes to 
a constable, whether the person is certain or 
uncertain, the constable may search suspect- 
ed places within his vill, for the apprehend- 
ing of the felon. And if the person against 
whom the hue and cry is raised, is not found 
in the constablewick, then the constable, and 
also every officer to whom the hue and cry 
shall afterwards come, ought to give notice to 
every town round about him, and to one next 
town only; and so from one constable to 
another, until the offender is found, or till 
they come to the sea-side. And this was the 
law before the conquest. 
And in such cases it is needful to give no- 
tice in writing to the pursuers of the thing 
stolen, and of the colour and marks thereof, 
as also to describe the person of the felon, 
his apparel, horse, or the like,, and which way 
he is gone, if it may be: but if the person 
that did the fact is neither known nor de- 
seribable by his person, cloaths, or the like, 
vet such an hue and cry is good, and must 
be pursued, though no person certain can be 
named or described. 2 H. H. 100. 103. 
HUER, a name given to certain fountains 
in Iceland, of a most extraordinary nature, 
forming at times jets d’eaux of scalding water 
94 feet high and 30 in diameter. They arise 
out of cylindrical tubes of unknown depths. 
Near the surface they expand into apertures 
of a funnel shape, and the mouths spread into 
a large extent of stalactical matter, formed of 
successive scaly concentric undulations. Tin; 
playing of these stupendous spouts is foretold 
bv noises roaring like the cataract of Niagara. 
The cylinder begins to fill: it rises gradually 
to the surface, and as gradually increases its 
height, smoking amazingly, and flinging up 
great stones. After attaining its greatest 
height, is gradually sinks till it totally disap- 
