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KEELAGE
. The right of demanding money for the bottom of ships resting in a port or harbor. The money so paid is also |
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KEELS
. This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed in the carriage of coals. Jacob, L. D. |
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KENTUCKY
. The name of one of the new states of the United States of America. 2. This state was formerly a part of Virg |
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KEY
. An instrument made for shutting and opening a lock. 2. The keys of a house are considered as real estate, an |
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KEY,
estates. A wharf at which to land goods from, or to load them in a vessel. This word is now generally spelled |
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KEYAGE
. A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf. |
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KIDNAPPING
. The forcible and unlawful abduction and conveying away of a man, woman, or child, from his or her home, with |
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KILDERKIN
. A measure of capacity equal to eighteen gallons. See Measure. |
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KINDRED
. Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His chil |
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KING
. The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power. 2. The following table of the re |
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KING'S BENCH
. The name of the supreme court of law in England. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there |
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KINGDOM
. A country where an officer called a king exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or |
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KINTLIDGE
, merc. law. This term is used by merchants and seafaring men to signify a ship's ballast. Mere. Dict. |
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KIRBY'S QUEST
. An ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the English Exchequer, so called from being the inquest |
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KISSING
. Kissing the bible is a ceremony used in taking the corporal oath, the object being, as the canonists say, to |
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KNAVE
. A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. This signification of the word has arisen by a long perversion of i |
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KNIGHT'S FEE
, old Eng. law. An uncertain measure of land, but, according to some opinions it is said to contain six hundre |
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KNIGHT'S SERVICE
, Eng. law. It was, formerly, a tenure of lands. Those who held by knight's service were called: milites qui p |
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KNOWINGLY
, pleadings. The word knowingly," or "well knowing," will supply the place of a positive averment in an indict |
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KNOWLEDGE
. Information as to a fact. 2. Many acts are perfectly innocent when the party performing them is not aware of |
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