Keep

To heed; observe; regard; attend to. When it Is said that a certain man keeps a woman, the popular inference is, that the relation is one which involves illicit intercourse; Downing v. Wilson, 36 Ala. 717. See Barrett v. R. Co., 3 Allen (Mass.) 101; Cummings V. Riley, 52 N. H. 368, To keep a street in safe condition, means to have it j so; to make and remake it so; City of Atlanta V. Buchanan, 76 Ga. 585. To keep j premised in repair is to have them at all times in that condition; 1 B. & Aid. 585.

Keep down interest

To pay interest periodically as it becomes due, but the phrase does not extend to the payment of all arrears of interest which may have become due on any security from the time when the instrument was executed.

4 El. & Bl. 211.