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† hand-habend, a. (n.) O.E. Law.
Also 3 -habbynde, 4 -habbing, 6 Sc. -havand,
[Early ME. form of OE. *hand-hæbbend ‘hand-having’, for which the phrase actually found is æt hæbbendre handa ‘at or with a having hand’. The form habend was subseq. more or less modernized.]
Of a thief: Having (the thing stolen) in hand. Also applied as n. to the offence, and to the franchise of holding plea thereof.
[a725Laws of Wihtræd c. 26 (Schmid), Gif man friᵹne man æt hæbbendre handa ᵹefo. a940Laws of æthelst. iv. c. 6 Quicunque sit [fur] sit handhabenda, sit non handhabenda, si pro certo sciatur. Ibid. v. Proem §2 Se þe æt hæbbendre handa ᵹefangen sy. c1125Laws of Hen. I, c. 59 §20 Forisbannitum, aut furem handhabendum. ]c1250Bracton III. ii. xxxii. §2 Ubi latro deprehensus est..hondhabende & bacberende. 1292Britton i. xxx. §6 Acun..robbeour seisi de soen larcyn handhabbynde et bacberinde. a1300Floriz & Bl. 668 Felons inome hond habbing. 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 691 Who is founde hond-habbing, Hit nis non nede of witnessing. c1575Balfour Practicks (1754) 39 Thieves..apprehendit in manifest thift, sic as handhavand and back-beirand. 1609Skene tr. Quoniam Attach. c. 39 §1 Gif he is taken..in handhauang theift, or roborie. 1828Scott F.M. Perth iv, Our outfang and infang, our hand-habend, our back-bearand, and our blood-suits. |