Black's Law Dictionary

A person who, in oriental states, supplies the place of our notary public. All obligations, to be valid, are drawn by him; and he is also the public weigh-master, and everything of

In Hindu law. A written agreement, especially one signifying assent, as the counterpart of a revenue lease or the document in which a payer of revenue, whether to the government, t

A key, kay or quay. Spelman.

A wharfage-dun.

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

A duty paid by shopkeepers in Hindostan, who retail spirituous liquors; also the place where spirituous liquors are sold. Wharton.

In English ecolesiastical law. Rural chapters or conventions of the rural deans and parochial clergy, which were formerly held on the calends of every month; hence the name. Paroch

An account of time, exhibiting the days of the week and month, the seasons, etc. More commonly spelled "calendar."

In the civil law. A calendar; a book of accounts, memorandum-book or debt-book; a book in which accounts were kept of moneys loaned out on interest. Dig. 32, 64. So called because

See Calends.

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

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

In Swedish law. Jettison; a literal translation of the Latin "jactus." —Kast-geld. Contribution for a jettison; average.

Contribution for a jettison; average.

See INSANITY.

A quay or key.

A Mohammedan judge or magistrate in the East Indies, appointed originally by the court at Delhi, to administer justice according to their written law. Under the British authorities

An abbreviation for "King's Bench," (g. v.)

An abbreviation for "King's Counsel."

The right to demand money for the privilege of anchoring a vessel in a harbor; also the money se paid.

This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed in the carriage of coals. Jacob.

n. A strong tower or hold in the middle of any eastle or fortification, wherein the besieged make their last efforts of defense, was formerly, In England, called a "keep;" and the

A custodian, manager or superintendent; one who has the care, custody or management of any thing or place. Schultz v. State, 32 Ohio St 281; State v. Rozum, 8 N. D. 548, 80 N. W. 4

In old English law. An officer (called also chief warden of the forest) who had the principal government of all things relating to the forest, and the control of all officers belon

A name sometimes applied to the chancellor of England, as being formerly an ecclesiastic and presiding over the royal chapel. 3 Bl. Comm. 48.

In English law. An officer through whose hands pass ali charters signed by the king before they come to the great seal. He ls a privy councillor, and was anciently calied "clerk of

The master of the assay in the English mint. 12 Hen. VI. c. 14.

To drag a person under the keel of a ship by means of ropes from the yard-arms, a punishment formerly practicod in the British navy. Elan. Lond.

An edict or award between Henry III. and those who had been in arms against him; so calied because made at Kenilworth Castle, in Warwickshire, anno 51 Hen. III., A. D. 1266. It con

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.

In maritime law. A permanent ballast, consisting usually of pigs of iron, cast in a particular form or other weighty material, which, on account of its superior cleaniiness, and th

The division of a county; a hundred in Wales. See Cantbed.

A series of resolutions drawn up by Jefferson, and adopted by the legislature of Kentucky in 1799, protesting against the "alien and sedition laws," declaring their illegality, ann

The jagged end of a stick of wood made by the cutting. Pub. St. Mass. 1882, p. 1292.

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

Fortified or embattled. Co.. Litt. 5a.

In English law. Idlers; vagabonds.

A wharf for the lading and unlading of merchandise from vessels. More commonly spelled "quay." An instrument for fastening and opening a lock. This appears as an English word as ea

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

In the Isle of Man, are the twenty-four chief commoners, who form the local legislature. 1 Steph. Comm. 99. In old English law. A guardian, warden, or kceper.

In old Scotch law. Co.rtain officers of courts. See Claves Curias.

A guardian, warden or kceper. Mon. Angl. tom. 2, p. 71.

In Hindu law. An office of government in which the business of the revenue department was transacted under the Mohammedan government, and during the early period of British rule. K

In English law. An engrosser ©f corn to enhance its price. Also a huckster.

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

The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman or child from their own country, and sending them into another. It is an offense punishable at the common law by fine and im

A measure of eighteen gallons.

An ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry. Cowell.

n. A Dutch word, signifying a channel or bed of the river, and hence the river or stream itself. It is found used in this sense in descriptions of land in old conveyances. French v

A custom by which lords of manors were boun'd to provide a stallion for the use of their tenants' mares. Spelman.

Relation or relationship by blood or consanguinity. "The nearness of kin is computed according to the civil law." 2 Kent, Comm. 413. See Keniston v. Mayhew, 169 Mass. 166, 47 N. E.

Genus; generic class; description. See In Kind.

Relatives by blood. "Kindred of the whole blood, preferred to kindred of the half blood." 4 Kent, Comm. 404, notes. See Butler v. Eiyton Land Co., 84 Ala. 384, 4 South. 675; Farr v

The sovereign, ruler or chief executive magistrate of a state or nation whose constitution is of the kind called "monarchical" is thus named if a man; if it be a woman, she is call

The art of governing.

A country where an officer called a "king" exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or limited. Wolff, Inst. Nat § 994. In some kingdoms, the executive offi

A royal aid; an escuage, (q. v.)

An English advocate who holds, in the ceurts in which the rules of the canon and civil law prevail, a similar position to that which the attorney general holds in the ordinary cour

The principal herald of England was of old designated "king of the heralds," a title which seems to have been exchanged for "king-at-arms" about the reign of Henry IV. The kings-at

The supreme court of common law in England, being so called because the king used formerly to sit there in person, the style of the court being "coram ipso rege." It was called the

Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Great Britain, which are inclosed within headlands so as to be cut off from the open sea by imaginary straight lines drawn fro

An officer of the court of king's bench, usually called "the master of the crown offico," whose duty it is to file informations at the suit of a private subject by direction of the

Barristers or serjeants who have bcen called within the bar and selected to be the king's counsel. They answer in some measure to the advocati fisci or advocates of the revenue, am

When several persons are charged with a crime, and one of them gives evidence against his accomplices, on the promise of being granted a pardon, he is said to be admitted king's or

A proctor or solicitor representing the crown in the former practice of the courts of probate and divorce. In petitions for dissolution of marriage or for declarations of nullity o

An officer of the central office of the English supreme court. Formerly he was an officer of the exchequer, and had important duties to perform in protecting the rights of the crow

In old English practice. A fine due the king pro licentia concordandi, (for leave to agree,) in the process of levying a fine. 5 Coke, 39, 43; 2 Inst. 511; 2 Bl. Comm. 350.

In feudal law. A widow of the king's tenant in chief, who was obliged to take oath in chancery that she would not marry without the king's leave.

Relations ; those who are of the same family.

In Saxon law. A composition or satisfaction paid for killing a kinsman. Spelman.

A man of the same race or family. Wood v. Mitcham, 92 N. Y. 379.

A female relation.

A hundred pounds in weight. See Quintal.

A ship's ballast See Kentlage.

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

In English law. An ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the exchequer, being an inquisition or survey of all the lands in England, taken in the reign of Edward I. by J

In Scotch law. A church; the church; the established church of Scotland. —Kirk-mote. A meeting of parishioners on church affairs. —Kirk-officer. The beadle of a church in Scotland.

A meeting of parishioners on church affairs.

The beadle of a church in Scotland.

A parochial church court in Scotland, consisting of the ministers and elders of each parish.

The ceremony of touching the lips to a copy of the Bible, used in administering oaths. It is the external symbol of the witness' acknowledgment of the obligation of the oath.

In Hindu law. A stated payment; installment of rent.

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

A rascal; a false, tri9ky or deceitful person. The word originally meant a boy, attendant or servant, but long-continued usage has given it its present signification.

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

In English law. The next personal dignity after the nobility. Of knights there are several orders and degrees. The first in rank are knights of the Garter, instituted by Richard I.

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

An ancient guild or society formed by King Edgar.

The rank, order, character, or dignity of a knight.

In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses committed within the household and verge, and of all contracts made therein, a mem

In English law. The most ancient, though lowest, order of knighthood. 1 Bl. Comm. 404.

In English law. Those created by the sovereign in person on the field of battle. They rank, generally, after knights of the Garter. 1 BI. Comm. 403.

A species of feudal tenure, which differed very slightly from a pure and perfect feud, being entirely of a military nature; and it was the first, most universal, and most honorable

See Fee.

Michael and St. George. An English order of knighthood, instituted in 1818.

In English law. A military order of knighthood, instituted by Richard II. The order was newly regulated by notifications in the London Gazette of 25th May, 1847, and 16th August, 1

Those created in the sovereign's chamber in time of peace, not in the field. 2 Inst. 666.

Otherwise called "Knights of the Order of St. George." This order was founded by Richard I., and improved by Edward III., A. D. 1344. They form the highest order of knights.

A term for hireling wiinesses.

In English law. Members of parliament representing counties or shires, in contradistinction to citizens or burgesses, who represent boroughs or corporations. A knight of the shire