1. Husband-wife Privilege

A special right that married persons have to keep communications between them secret and even inaccessible to a court of law.

2. Hung Jury

A jury which is unable to arrive at a required unanimous or near unanimous verdict.

3. Human Right

An individual's statutory right to equal treatment and to be free from discrimination prohibited by statute. Such rights typically provide a civil remedy to provide compensation or to punish discrimination when it is reported.

4. Hotchpot

The mixing of property for the purpose of effecting a proportionate division.

5. Hostile Witness

During an examination-in-chief, a lawyer is not allowed to ask leading questions of their own witness. But, if that witness openly displays hostility against the interest of the person that the lawyer represents, the lawyer may ask the court to declare the witness "hostile", after which, the lawyer may ask their own witness leading questions.

6. Homicide

The world includes all occasions where one human being, by commission or omission of an act, takes away the life of another.

7. Home Invasion

A break and enter of occupied residential premises with forced confinement, assault or battery of its occupants.

8. Holograph Will

A will that is not witnessed and is written in the handwriting of the testator.

9. Hodge's Case

A rule in regards to the use of circumstantial evidence in the conviction of a criminal offense.

10. Himalaya Clause

A clause in a transportation contract purporting to extend liability limitations which benefits the carrier, to others who act as agents for the carrier such as longshoremen.