Category: K

Sax. Kin or kindred

A welsh term for a waster, rhymer, minstrel, or other vagabond who makes assemblies and collections. Barring. Ob. St 360

The Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws

A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell

In conveyancing. A form of public address, of great antiquity, nnd with which many written instruments, such as bonds, letters of attorney, etc., still commence

An ancient guild or society formed by King Edgar

A court which used to be held twice a year by the bishop of Hereford, In England

In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses com-mitted within the household and verge, aud

Iu English law. The next personal dignity after the noblllty. of knights there are several orders and degrees. The first ln rank are knights of the Garter, lustituted by Richard I. and improved by Edward III. ln 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived […]

A portion of grain given to a mill-servant from tenants who were bound to grind their grain at such mill

A rascal; a false, tricky, or de-ceitfuL person. The word originally meant a boy, attendant, or servant, but long-continued usage has given lt its present slgnifl-cation

IA. In medical jurisprudence. A form (or symptom) of mania, consisting in an irresistible propensity to steal. See INSANITY

In English law. An ancient record remaining with the remem-b ran cer of the exchequer, being an inquisition or survey of all tlie lands ln England, taken ln tbe reign of Edward I. by John de Kirby, his treasurer. Blount; Cowell

In old English law. The space of time between the 3d of May and the Epiphany, in which fishing for salmon in the Thames, between Gravesend and Henley-on-Thames, was forbidden. Rot. Part 50 Edw. III

A ship’s ballast See Kentlage

or KINTLE. A hundred pounds lu weight See Quintal

An offl-cer of the central office of the English supreme court. Formerly he was an ofiicer of the exchequer, aud had important duties to

A proctor or solici-tor representing the crown ln the former practice of the courts of probate and divorce. In petitions for dissolution of marriage, or for declarations of nullity of marriage, the king’s proctor may, under the direction of the attorney geueral, ami by leave of the court, intervene in the suit for the puriwse […]

Genus; generic class; description. See In Kind

A custom by which lords of manors were bound to provide a stallion for the use of thelr tenants* mares. Spelman

An ancient servile payment made by tenants ln husbandry. Cowell

A measure of eighteen gallons

The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child from their own country, and sending them lnto another. It is an offeuse punishable at the common law by flne and imprisonment. 4 Bl. Comm. 219

In old English law. A dam or open wear ln a river, with a loop or nar-row cut in it, accommodated for the laying of engines to catch fish. 2 lnst 38; Blount

In Hindu law. Au office of goverumeut in which the business of the reveuue department was transacted under the Mohammedan government, and during the early period of British rule. Khalsa lands are lands, the revenue of which ls paid into the exchequer, wharton

A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf. Rowan v. Portland, 8 B. Mon. (Ky.) 253

In English law. Idlers; vaga-bonds

Fortified or embattled. Co. Litt. 5a

A customary cart-way; also a commutation for a customary carriage-duty. CoweU

The jagged end of a- stick of wood made hy the cutting. Pub. SL Mass. 1882, p. 1292

The division of a county; a hundred in wales. See Cantked.

In marltime law. A per-manent ballast, consisting usually of pigs of iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of lts superior cleanliness, and the small space oc-cupied by it, is frequently preferred to or-dinary ballast Abb. Shipp. 5

In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband’s lands which belong to the widow in right of her terce or dower. Bell

A custodian, manager, or su-perlntendent; one who has the care, cus-tody, or management of any thing or place. Schultz v. State, 32 ohlo St. 281; State v. Rozum, 8 N. D. 548, 80 N. W. 481; Fishell v. Morris, 57 Conn. 547, 18 Atl. 717, 6 L. R. A. 82; McCoy v. Zane, 65 Mo. […]

This word is applied, in Eng-land, to vessels employed in the carriage of coals. Jacob

To drag a person under the keel of a ship by meaus of ropes from the yard-arms, a punishment for-merly practiced in the British navy. Enc. Lond

The right to demand mouey for the privilege of anchoring a vessel in a harbor; aiso the money so paid

In old records. A cart-loud. Cowell; Blount

In Saxon and old English law A man; a serving man. Buxkarl, a seaman. Huskarl, a house servant. Spelman

See Calends

In the civll law. A calendar; n book of accounts, memorandum-hook, or debt-hook; a book in which accounts were kept of moneys loaned out on lnterest. Dlg. 32, 64. So called because the Romans used to let out thelr money and receive the interest on the calends of each month. Cal-vln

In Eugllsh ecclesiastical law. Rural chapters, or conventions of the rural deans and parochial clergy, whlch were formerly held on the calends of every month; hence the name. ”Paroch. Antiq. 604

A duty paid by shop-keepers in Hlndostan, who retail spirituous liquors; also the place where spirituous liquors are sold, wharton

In Scotch law. Poultry render-able by a vassal to hls superior, reserved ln the lease as the whole or a part of the rent. Bell

or KAIAGIUM. A wharfage-due

A key, kay, or quay. Spelman

In Hindu law. A writ-ten agreement, especially one signifying as-sent, as the counterpart of a revenue lease, or tlie document in which a payer of revenue, whether to the government, the zainlndar, or the farmer, expresses his consent to pay the amount assessed upon his land. wils. Ind. Gloss

A person who, in oriental states, supplies the place of our notary public. AU obligations, to be valid, are drawn by him; and he Is also the public weigh-master, aud everything of consequence ought to he weighed before him. Enc. Lond