Definition of Hopbinds

1. hopbind [n] - See also: hopbind

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopbinds

hop off
hop on
hop out
hop pole
hop to it
hop up
hopak
hopaks
hopane
hopanes
hopanoid
hopanoids
hopback
hopbacks
hopbind
hopbinds (current term)
hopbine
hopbines
hopdog
hopdogs
hope
hope against hope
hope chest
hope chests
hoped
hoped-for
hoped for
hopeful
hopefull
hopefuller

Literary usage of Hopbinds

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer: With the Practice of Country by John Frederick Archbold (1846)
"hopbinds. See " Malicious Injuries." Horse. See " Cattle." Horse slaughtering, 720: licence, 720; time of killing, and treatment previously, 721 ; hours of ..."

2. An Alphabetical Arrangement of Mr. Peel's Acts, Lord Lansdowne's Act, Etc by John Frederick Archbold, Robert Peel, Henry Petty Fitz Maurice Lansdowne (1830)
"32, [as to hopbinds] repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27. ... The offence of cutting hopbinds is now, therefore, no longer a capital felony. ..."

3. A Digest of the Criminal Statute Law of England: Alphabetically and by Harold Nuttall Tomlins (1819)
"Persons maliciously cutting hopbinds, declared guilty of Felony, without clergy. Provision and powers of 9 G. ic 12. extended to cases of offences committed ..."

4. A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe, Thomas Colpitts Granger, George Sharswood (1840)
"Proof of cutting or destroying hopbinds.] By the 7 and 8 Geo. 4, c. 30, S.-18, "if any person shall unlawfully and maliciously cut or otherwise destroy any ..."

5. A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"27, which also enacted that any one who, whilst the Black Act continued in force, should maliciously cut any hopbinds growing on poles in any plantation of ..."

6. Roscoe's Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe (1888)
"19, "whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cut or otherwise destroy any hopbinds growing on poles in any plantation of hops shall be guilty of felony, ..."

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