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HAP

Volume 5 · 67 words · 1810 Edition

or HARP, in Law, signifies to catch or snatch a thing. Thus we meet with, to hap the possession of a deed-poll. Littleton, fol. 8. also, to hap the rent. If partition be made between two parcers, and more land be allowed the one than the other, she that hath most of the land charges it to the other, and hatheth the rent whereon alike is brought.