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List of legal terms beginning with the Letter "H"
- H-1B-Dependent Employer
- H-1B1 Visa
- H-1B2 Visa
- H-1B3 Visa
- H-2A Program
- H-2B Work Visa
- H-4B Visa
- Habeas Corpus
- Habeas Corpus Act
- Habeas Corpus Ad Deliberandum Et Recipiendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Faciendum Et Recipiendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Prosequendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Respondendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Satisfaciendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Subjiciendum
- Habeas Corpus Ad Testificandum
- Habemus Optimum Testem, Confitentem Reum
- Habendum Clause
- Habere Facias Possessionem
- Habere Facias Seisinam
- Habili modo
- Habit Evidence
- Habit-Forming Narcotic Drug
- Habitat [Wildlife Law]
- Habitat Conservation Plan [HCP]
- Habitat Destruction
- Habitat Enhancement
- Habitat Establishment
- Habitat Improvement
- Habitat International Coalition [HIC]
- Habitat Restoration
- Habitual Criminal
- Habitual Criminal Statute
- Habitual Drunkenness
- Habitual Offender
- Habitual Residence
- Habitual Truant
- Hacker
- Hacking
- Hacktivism
- Hacktivist
- Hadley v. Baxendale Rule
- Haeredem Deus Facit, Non Homo
- Haeredes Proximi
- Haeredes Remotiores
- Haereditas Damnosa
- Haereditas Est Successio In Universum Jus Quod Defunctus Habuerat
- Haereditas Jacens
- Haereditas Luctuosa
- Haereditas Nihil Aliud Est, Quam Successio In Universum Jus, Quod Defunctus Habuerit
- Haereditas Nunquam Ascendit
- Haeredum Appellatione Veniunt Haeredes Haeredum In Infinitum
- Haeres
- Haeres Actu
- Haeres Est Eadem Persona Cum Antecessore
- Haeres Est Pars Antecessoris
- Haeres Ex Asse
- Haeres Extraneus
- Haeres Factus
- Haeres Fiduciarius
- Haeres Legitimus
- Haeres Legitimus Est Quem Nuptiae Demonstrant
- Haeres Natus
- Hague Abduction Convention
- Hague Adoption Certificate
- Hague Complaint Registry
- Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption
- Hague Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents
- Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil or Commercial Matters
- Hague Custody Declaration
- Hague Rules
- Hague Tribunal
- Hague Visby Rules
- Hail Insurance
- Haitian Divorce
- Half Blood
- Half Section
- Half-Seal
- Half-Time Student [Education]
- Half-Tongue
- Halfway House
- Hallmark
- Hallucinogen
- Hamburg Rules
- Hanc Tuemur, Hac Nitimur
- Hand of One is Hand of All Theory
- Hand Pay
- Handcuffs
- Handfast Marriage
- Handgun
- Handhabend
- Handicap
- Handicapped
- Handicapped Person
- Handle
- Handling Operation
- Hands-off Agreement
- Hands-off Doctrine
- Handwritten Signature
- Hang Seng Index
- Hanging Chad
- Hanging Judge
- Hansard
- Harass
- Harassment
- Harassment Policy
- Harbor
- Harbor Worker
- Harboring a Fugitive
- Harbormaster
- Hard Action
- Hard Case
- Hard Costs of Rehabilitation [HUD]
- Hard Fraud
- Hard Labor
- Hard Mineral Resource
- Hard Money
- Hard Peg
- Hard-Look Doctrine
- Hard-Metric
- Hardship Discharge
- Hardship License
- Hares Minor Uno Et Vigini Annis Non Respondebit, Nisi In Casu Dotis
- Harm
- Harm Principle
- Harmful Interference
- Harmless Error
- Harmonized System
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
- Harrison Narcotics Tax Act
- Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
- Harter Act
- Harvesting Strategy
- Harvey Waiver
- Hat Money
- Hatch Act
- Hatch-Waxman Act
- Hatchback Automobile
- Hatchery Operator
- Hate Crime
- Hate Speech
- HAVA
- Having Weapons While Under Disability
- Havoc
- Hawker
- Hay Fever
- Haybote
- Hazantown Agreement
- Hazard Controls
- Hazard Insurance
- Hazard Insurance [Agriculture]
- Hazard Pay
- Hazard Ranking System
- Hazard Reduction [HUD]
- Hazard to Navigation
- Hazard Warning Signal [Transportation]
- Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Hazardous Atmosphere
- Hazardous Contract
- Hazardous Disability
- Hazardous Liquid
- Hazardous Material or Hazmat
- Hazardous Materials Placard
- Hazardous Materials Transportation Act
- Hazardous or Injurious Device
- Hazardous Substance
- Hazardous substances
- Hazardous Waste
- Hazardous Waste Discharge
- Hazardous Waste Management
- Hazardous Waste Management Unit
- Hazardous Waste Treatment
- Hazing
- Hazmat Employee
- Hazmat Employer
- HCV Program
- HDI
- He Who Owns Land Owns To the Sky Above It
- Head Lessee
- Head Money
- Head of Contracting Activity or HCA [Energy]
- Head of Establishment
- Head of Family
- Head of Household
- Head of Household Filing Status
- Head of State
- Head of State Immunity
- Head Start (Education)
- Head Start Classroom
- Head Start Family Day Care
- Head-and-Master Rule
- Head-Start Injunction
- Header Information
- Headlease
- Headlessor
- Headnote
- Headquarters Marine Corp [HQMC] [Military Law]
- Headright
- Headright Certificate
- Healing Minister
- Health
- Health and Safety Study
- Health Assessment
- Health Benefit Plan
- Health Care
- Health Care Anatomical Gifts
- Health Care Benefit Program
- Health Care Business (Bankruptcy)
- Health Care Clearinghouse
- Health Care Decision Counseling
- Health Care Declaration
- Health Care Directives
- Health Care Directives Power Of Attorney
- Health Care Entity
- Health Care Facility
- Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
- Health Care Insurance Receivable
- Health Care Personnel (HCP)
- Health Care Power Of Attorney
- Health Care Practitioner
- Health Care Provider
- Health Care Proxy
- Health Care Purchasing Pool Act
- Health Care Removal of Life Support
- Health Care Service Plan
- Health Care Spending Account
- Health Care Workforce
- Health Center
- Health Flexible Spending Arrangement (Health FSA)
- Health Fraud
- Health Fund
- Health Information
- Health Information Technology
- Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN)
- Health Insurance Coverage
- Health Insurance Issuer
- Health Insurance Options
- Health Insurance Order
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act-HIPAA
- Health Insurance Underwriting
- Health Literacy
- Health Maintenance Organization HMO
- Health Profession
- Health Professional(s) Shortage Area
- Health Professionals
- Health Professionals Recovery Program
- Health Professions School
- Health Professions Student Loan [Public Health]
- Health Promotion
- Health Promotion Programs
- Health Registry
- Health Reimbursement Accounts (HRA)
- Health Reimbursement Arrangement (Health Care)
- Health Resources and Services Administration [HRSA]
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Health Security
- Health Service Program
- Health Service Research
- Health Services [Education]
- Health Services Research
- Health Studio Services
- Health Systems Agency
- Health-Care-Insurance Receivable
- Health-Sciences Professional
- Health, Prevention, and Wellness Program
- Healthcare Bankruptcy
- Healthcare Benefit Program
- Healthcare Directive
- Healthcare Lien
- Healthcare Proxy
- Healthcare Quality Improvement Act
- Healthy Diet
- Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003
- Healthy Marriage
- Healthy Marriage Initiative
- Healthy, High-Performance School Building [Education]
- Hearing
- Hearing Assignment
- Hearing Examination
- Hearing Examiner
- Hearing Impairment
- Hearing Officer
- Hearing Official
- Hearing Screening
- Hearing Services
- Hearing Site
- Hearings[Securities Dispute Resolution]
- Hearsay
- Hearsay Rule
- Hearsay Within Hearsay
- Heart Attack
- Heart Attack Standard
- Heart Diseases
- Heartbalm Statutes
- Hearth Money
- Heat Distribution Method
- Heat of Passion
- Heat Regulations Devices
- Heating and Air Conditioning
- Heating Degree Days
- Heavy Work
- Hedge Fund
- Hedge to Arrive Contract
- Hedging
- Hedonic
- Hedonic Damages
- Hedonistic Utilitarianism
- Heeding Presumption
- Heel
- Hegemony
- Heinous
- Heir Apparent
- Heir at Law
- Heir Hunter
- Heir Land
- Heir Legal
- Heir of Conquest
- Heir of Line
- Heir of Provision
- Heir of the Blood
- Heir Presumptive
- Heir Special
- Heir Testamentary
- Heirarchy of Needs
- Heirless
- Heirless Estate
- Heirloom
- Heirs
- Heirs of the Body
- Heirs of the First or Second Degree
- Heirs Portioners
- Heirship Affidavit
- Heirship Movables
- Held to Answer
- Helicopters
- Heliport
- Helium-Bearing Natural Gas
- Hell-or-High Water Rule
- Hell-or-High-Water Clause
- Helmet
- Helmet Positioning Index
- Help America Vote Act
- Helping Organization [Education]
- Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act
- Hemodialysis (HD) (Health Care)
- Hemophilia
- Hemorrhage
- Hepatitis
- Hepburn Act
- Herd
- Herdbook
- Hereditament
- Hereditary
- Hereditas Damnosa
- Hereinabove
- Hereinafter
- Heres Suus et Necessarius
- Heresy
- Heretofore
- Herfindahl Index
- Heriot
- Heritable Obligation
- Heritable Security
- Hermeneutics
- Hernia
- Heterosexual
- HFRP Restoration Plan [Agriculture]
- HH Bonds
- HHS-Certified Laboratory
- Hic Et Nunc
- Hidden Assets
- Hidden Curriculum
- Hidden Defect
- Hidden Tax
- High Concentration of Low-Income Students [Education]
- High Crime
- High crimes and misdemeanors
- High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP)
- High Exposure Level
- High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program
- High Migration Rural County [Tax]
- High Potential Historic Sites
- High Potential Route Segments
- High Poverty Area [Education]
- High Priority Activity Funds [Transportation]
- High Probability of Improving The Criminal Justice System
- High Radiation Area
- High Residential Energy User
- High Rise Residential Building
- High Risk Pool
- High School Diploma
- High School Graduate [Education]
- High Seas
- High Seas Fishing Compliance Act of 1995
- High Tech Business
- High Technology
- High Technology Crime
- High Tide Line
- High-Impact Business
- High-Level Radioactive Waste
- High-Low Agreement
- High-Low Arbitration
- High-Need Early Childhood Education Program [Education]
- High-Need Field [Education]
- High-Need Local Educational Agency
- High-Need School
- High-Poverty Areas
- High-Powered Money
- High-Priority User [Energy]
- High-Probability Rule
- High-Ratio Mortgage
- High-Risk Children
- High-Risk Restrictiveness Level
- High-Risk-of-Capture Personnel
- High-Yield Bond Fund
- Higher Education Facilities Act
- Higher Margin Level
- Higher Pay Band [Administrative Personnel]
- Highest Adjacent Grade
- Highest Degree of Care
- Highest Home Energy Needs
- Highest Possible Degree Available [Education]
- Highly Compensated Employee [Internal Revenue]
- Highly Competent Early Childhood Educator
- Highly Confidential Business Information
- Highly Enriched Uranium
- Highly Erodible Land
- Highly Leveraged Transaction
- Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
- Highly Qualified Paraprofessional [Education]
- Highly Qualified Teacher
- Highly Restricted Personal Information
- Highly Toxic
- Highway Beautification Act
- Highway Bridge Program
- Highway Construction
- Highway Fuel Economy Driving Schedule Energy Consumption Value
- Highway Law
- Highway Patrol
- Highway Safety Act
- Highway Safety Management System
- Highway Safety Program
- Highway Traffic Data
- Highway Trust Fund
- Highway-Rail Grade Crossing
- Highways
- Highways and Motor Vehicles
- Hilary Rules
- Hill–Burton Act
- Hilo Settlement
- Hilton Doctrine
- Himalaya Clause
- Hindering
- Hindering Secured Creditors
- Hindrance
- Hinshaw Pipeline
- HIP
- HIP Registration Number [Wildlife Law]
- HIPAA Confidentiality Regulations
- Hippocratic Oath
- Hired Gun
- Hiring Bonus
- Hiring Discrimination
- Hiring Hall
- Hiring Location
- Hispanic Student [Education]
- Hispanic-Serving Agricultural Colleges and Universities
- Hispanic-Serving Institution
- Hissing
- Historic Building
- Historic Conservation District
- Historic District
- Historic Dollar Value
- Historic Item
- Historic Land
- Historic Preservation
- Historic Preservation Loan [HUD]
- Historic Preservation Programs
- Historic Preservation Review Commission
- Historic Properties
- Historic Property
- Historical Collection
- Historical Experts
- Historical Jurisprudence
- Historical Materials
- Historical Revisionism
- Historically Black College Or University
- Historically Underserved Producer [Agriculture]
- Historically Underutilized Business Zone
- Hit and Run
- HIV
- HLA Test
- HLW Facility [Energy]
- Hoarding
- Hoarding [Finance]
- Hobbs Motion
- Hobbs Seal
- Hobby
- Hobby Loss
- Hog-Dog Fighting
- Hold an Interest Adverse to Bankruptcy Estate
- Hold Harmless
- Hold Harmless Agreement [Aeronautics and Space]
- Hold Harmless Clause
- Hold Order [Prison Law]
- Holdback
- Holder for Value
- Holder in Due Course
- Holding
- Holding Agency
- Holding Area
- Holding Cell
- Holding Company
- Holding of Discrimination
- Holding Period [Tax Law]
- Holding Zone
- Holiday Pay
- Holiday Vacation [Veterans’ Relief]
- Holidays
- Holistic
- Holographic Will
- Homage
- Homage Ancestral
- Home
- Home Affordable Modification Program or HAMP
- Home Affordable Refinance Program or HARP
- Home Based Business
- Home Care
- Home Detention
- Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM)
- Home Equity Conversion Mortgage [HECM] Counselor [HUD]
- Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
- Home Equity Loan
- Home Health Agency (HHA)
- Home Health Care
- Home Health Services
- Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act
- Home Improvment Contract
- Home Invasion
- Home Loan
- Home Market Value
- Home Mortgage
- Home Mortgage Loan
- Home of Record [Military Law]
- Home Offices
- Home Owners Association or HOA
- Home Owners' Loan Corporation
- Home Owners’ Loan Act
- Home Protection Contract
- Home Residency Requirement [HRR]
- Home Roof Warranties2
- Home Rule
- Home Rule City
- Home School Program
- Home Schooling
- Home Solicitation Sale
- Home State
- Home State of a Foreign Bank
- Home Study
- Home Study Preparer
- Home Towned
- Home Visitation Programs
- Home Warranty
- Home-Based Business Insurance
- Home-Based Head Start Program
- Home-Country Physical Presence Requirement
- Home-Port Doctrine
- Home-Rule Charter
- Home-State Jurisdiction [Family Law]
- Homeland Defense
- Homeland Defense Activity
- Homeland Security
- Homeland Security Act 2002
- Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency
- Homeland Security Advisory Council [HSAC]
- Homeland Security Council
- Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program [HSEEP]
- Homeland Security Information Network
- Homeland Security Institute
- Homeland Security Operations Center [HSOC]
- Homeland Security Preparedness
- Homeless
- Homeless Children and Youths
- Homeless Family with Children [HUD]
- Homeless Individual
- Homeless Person [HUD]
- Homeless Youth
- Homemaker Service
- Homeowner Warranty (HOW)
- Homeowners Insurance
- Homeownership [HUD]
- Homeport
- Homeschooling
- Homestead
- Homestead Act
- Homestead Declaration
- Homestead Deed
- Homestead Exemption
- Homestead Principle
- Homestead Protection [Agriculture]
- Homestead Protection Property [Agriculture]
- Homestead Waiver
- Homesteader
- Hometown Heroes Survivors Benefits Act of 2003
- Homicide
- Homicide Bombers
- Hommes De Fief
- Homo sacer
- Homogeneous Good
- Homologate
- Homologation
- Homophobia
- Homosexual
- Honesty Test
- Honeybee Act
- Honorable Discharge
- Honorable-Engagement Clause
- Honorarium
- Honorary Feud
- Honorary Trust
- Honors College
- Hoopa Indian Blood
- Hoopa Valley Tribe
- Hopper Fill Slip (Gaming Law)
- Horizontal Agreement
- Horizontal Equity
- Horizontal Export Trading Company
- Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Testing
- Horizontal Merger
- Horizontal Privity
- Horizontal Scheme
- Horizontal-Property Act
- Hornbook
- Hornbook Law
- Hornbook Method
- Horning
- Horse Protection Act
- Horse Racing
- Horserace Permitholder
- Horseshedding
- Horticultural Therapist
- Horticulture
- Hospice
- Hospice Care
- Hospice Program
- Hospital Care of a Veteran
- Hospital Days
- Hospital Education Program [HEP]
- Hospital Insurance
- Hospital Lien
- Hospitals
- Host Activity [Office of Personnel Management]
- Host Committee [Federal Elections]
- Host Country National
- Host Organization
- Host Racing Association
- Host Rock [Energy]
- Host State
- Hostile
- Hostile Environment
- Hostile Force
- Hostile Force or Person [Employee Compensation]
- Hostile Possession
- Hostile Takeover
- Hostile Tender Offer
- Hostile Witness
- Hostile Workplace Environment
- Hostis Humani Generis
- Hot Cargo
- Hot Cargo Clause
- Hot Court
- Hot Line
- Hot Money
- Hot Pursuit
- Hot Work
- Hot-Cargo Agreement
- Hot-Potato Rule
- Hotchpot
- Hotel Divorce
- Hoteling
- Hotels and Motels
- Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
- Hours at Work
- Hours Worked
- House Advantage (Gaming Law)
- House Air Waybill
- House Arrest
- House Arrest Bracelet
- House Banking Game
- House Closing
- House Confinement Clause
- House Counsel
- House Majority Leader
- House Minority Leader
- House of Correction
- House of Prostitution
- House Rules Committee
- Housebreaking
- Houseburning
- Household
- Household Contents [Agriculture]
- Household Employee
- Household Furnishings
- Household Goods
- Household Goods Motor Carrier
- Household Income
- Household Member
- Household Size
- Household Substance
- Household Textile Articles
- Household Waste
- Housemark
- Housing Accommodations [Banks & Banking]
- Housing and Community Development Assistance [HUD]
- Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008
- Housing Authority
- Housing Choice Voucher Program
- Housing Court
- Housing Creditor [Banks & Banking]
- Housing Discrimination
- Housing for the Elderly [HUD]
- Housing Programs
- Housing Receiving Federal Assistance [HUD]
- Housing Related Community Development
- Housing Segregation
- Housing Specialist
- Housing Unit
- Hovering Act
- Hovering Vessel
- HS Convention
- HTML
- HTS
- Hub Agreement Arbitration
- Hubbub
- HUBZone
- HUBZone Contract
- Hubzone Empowerment Contracting Program
- HUBZone Small Business Concern
- HUD
- HUD Homes
- HUD Youthbuild Programs [HUD]
- Human Beings
- Human Development Index [HDI]
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Aids
- Human Infant Born Alive
- Human Intrusion [Energy]
- Human Life Amendment
- Human Resource Information System
- Human Resource Management
- Human Resource Policies
- Human Resources
- Human Resources Management and the Law
- Human Rights
- Human Rights Commission
- Human Rights Democracy Fund [HRDF]
- Human Rights Instrument
- Human Rights Systems
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Security
- Human Smuggling
- Human Subject
- Human Trafficking
- Human-Made Disaster
- Humane
- Humane Slaughter Act
- Humane Society of the United States [HSUS]
- Humanitarian Assistance
- Humanitarian Daily Ration
- Humanitarian Doctrine
- Humanitarian law
- Humanitarian or Peacekeeping Operation
- Humanitarian Parole
- Humanities
- Humphrey- Hawkins Full Employment Act
- Hundred
- Hundred Rolls
- Hundredweight Pricing
- Hung Jury
- Hung Ordinance
- Hunting
- Hunting Licenses
- Hunting Year
- Huntley Hearing
- Hurdle Rate of Return
- Hurricane Katrina Disaster Area
- Hurricane Rita Disaster Area
- Hurricane Wilma Disaster Area
- Hurricanes
- Husband and Wife Privilege
- Husband Wife Immunity
- Husbandry
- Hush Money
- Hustler
- Hut Tax
- Hybrid Action
- Hybrid Adjustable Rate Mortgage
- Hybrid Cross
- Hybrid Entity [Internal Revenue]
- Hybrid Gang
- Hybrid Grain Contracts
- Hybrid Instrument
- Hybrid Offences
- Hybrid Rulemaking
- Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic Energy System
- Hybrid Vehicle
- Hyde
- Hyde Act
- Hydraflow Test
- Hydrogeologic Unit [Energy]
- Hydrographic Data
- Hydrographic Services
- Hydrologic Accounting Unit
- Hydrophytic Vegetation
- Hygiene
- Hyperinflation
- Hyphenates (Entertainment law)
- Hypnosis
- Hypodermic Needle Model
- Hypotheca
- Hypothecary Action
- Hypothecate
- Hypothecation
- Hypothetical Creditor
- Hypothetical Monopolist Test
- Hypothetical Performance Data [Investment]
- Hypothetical Question
- Hypothetical Tenant
- Hysterectomy
