in *Scots Law*, lands, houses, or any immoveable subject, in contradistinction to moveables or moveable subjects. It also sometimes signifies such immoveable property as a person succeeds to as heir to another, in contradistinction to that which he himself purchases or acquires in any other manner, called **conquest**.

**HERMÆA**, in antiquity, ancient Greek festivals in honour of the god Hermes or Mercury. One of these was celebrated by the Phenæae in Arcadia; a second by the Cyllenians in Elis; and a third by the Tanagraeans, where Mercury was represented with a ram upon his shoulder, because he was said to have walked through the city in that posture in time of a plague, and to have cured the sick; in memory of which, it was customary at this festival for one of the most beautiful youths in the city to walk round the walls with a ram upon his shoulder. A fourth festival of the same name was observed in Crete, when it was usual for the servants to sit down at the table while their masters waited; a custom which was also observed at the Roman Saturnalia.