A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

the right of demanding money for the bottom of ships resting in a port or harbour. The money so paid, is also called keelage.

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

estates. A wharf at which to land or load goods from or in a vessel. This word is now generally spelled Quay, from the French, ‘quai.;

An instrument made for opening a lock. The keys of a house. are considered as real estate, and descend to the heir with the inheritance. When the keys of a warehouse are delivered

a toll paid for loading

relations by blood. Nature has divided kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children and their descendants; 2, his father, mother and other ascendants; 3, his

The chief magistrate a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power.

The name of the supreme court of Jaw in England. It is so called because forstill coram ipso rege, before the king himself. During the reign of a queen, it is called the Queen’s Be

Entessaunt—ibid. 242. a.

merc. law. This term is used by merchants and seafaring men to signify a ship’s ballast. Merc. Dict.

An ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the English Exchequer, called from being the inquest of John De Kirby, treasurer to Edw. I.

A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. ‘This signification of the word has arisen by a long perversion of its original meaning. '

pleadings. The word “ knowingly,” or “ well knowing,” will supply the place of a positive averment in an indictment or declaration, that the defendant knew the facts subsequently s