HUDSONIA, in botany, from William Hudson, a genus of the Dodecandria Mo nogynia class and order. Natufal order of Bicornes. Jussieu. Essential character : calyx five leaved, tubular ; co rolla none ; stamens fifteen ; capsule one celled, three valved, three seeded. There is only one species, viz. H. ericoides, a na tive of different parts of the United States.
HUE and CRY, is the ancient common law process after felons, and such as have dangerously wounded any person, or as saulted any one with intent to rob him. And it has received great countenance and authority by several acts of parlia ment. In any of these cases, the party grieved, or any other, may resort to the constable of the vill ; and, 1st, give him such reasonable assurance of the fact as the nature of the case will bear : 2. If he know the name of him that did it, he must tell the constable ; 3. If he know it not, but can describe him, he must describe him, his person, or his habit, or his house, or such circumstances as he knows, which may conduce to the discovery ; 4. If the thing be done in the night, so that he knows none of these circumstances, he must mention the number of persons, or the way they took : 5. If none of all these can be discovered, as where a robbery, or burglary, or other felony, is committed in the night, yet they are to acquaint the constable with the fact, and desire him to search his town for suspected persons, and to make hue and cry after such as may probably be suspected, as being per sons vagrant in the same night ; for many circumstances may happen to be useful for discovering a malefactor, which can not at first be found out. For the levying
of hue and cry, although it is a good course to have a justice's warrant, where time will permit, in order to prevent causeless hue and cry, yet it is not neces sary, nor always convenient ; for the felon may escape before the warrant be obtain ed. And upon hue and cry, levied against any person, or where any hue and cry ' comes to a constable, whether the person be certain or uncertain, the constable may search suspected places within his vill, ' for the apprehending of the felon. And if the person, against whom the hue and . cry is raised, be not found in the consta blewick, then the constable, and also every officer to whom the hue and cry shall afterwards come, ought to give no tice to every town round about him, and not to one next town only; and so from one constable to another, until the offen der be found, or till they come to the sea side : and this was the law before the con quest. Hue and cry also is good, and must be pursued, though no person cer tain can be named or described.