The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In Scotch law. A payment of fowls, etc., reserved in a lease. It is derived from canum, a word used in ancient grants to signify fowls or animals deliverable by the vassal to his s

Rural chapters, or conventions of the rural deans and parochial clergy, which were formerly held on the calends of every month; hence the name. Par. Ant. 604.

The original form of "calendar." KALENDARIUM (Lat.) In civil law. A calendar; a book of accounts, memorandum book, or debt books; a book in which accounts were kept of moneys loane

See "Calends."

{Charaxare, Law Lat.) In old records. To mark; to put down in characters or letters; to write. Spelman. KARL (Sa Xon). In Saxon and old English law. A man; a serving man. Buskarl,

The right of demanding money for the bottom of ships resting in a port or harbor. The money so paid is also called "keelage." ship by means of ropes from the yard- arms; a punishme

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

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

The words "bear arms" as used in the constitutional provision have reference to their military use, and the wearing of them in war or in peace, 3 Heisk. 194, and were not employed

One who has the care, custody or superintendence of anything. 67 111. 590. KEEPER OF THE FOREST (called, also, the "chief warden of the forest"). An officer who had the principal g

A judicial officer who is, by virtue of his office, a lord and a member of the privy council. Through his hands pass all charters, commissions, and grants of the crown, to be seale

The officer through whose hands go allj charters, pardons, etc., signed by the king before going to the great seal, and some which do not go there at all. He is of the privy counci

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

In English bankruptcy law. The act of a trader in withdrawing to a secret part of the house, refraining from going to business, or confining himself to the house for the purpose of

It was necessary for students in the Inns of Court to keep twelve terms, comprising three years, for admission to the English bar. Each term was three or four weeks, including one

As applied to a place of business, implies "a readiness to carry on the usual business therein." 16 Mich. 477.

To refrain from any breach of the peace {q. v.).

An edict or award between Henry III. and those who had been in arms against him; so called because made at Kenilworth Castle, in Warwickshire, A. D. 1266. It contained a compositio

In Scotch law. The ascertainment by a sheriff of the just, proportion of the husband's lands which belongs to the widow in virtue pf her terce or third. An assignment of dower by s

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 cleanliness, and t

The division of a county; a hundred in Wales, See "Cantred."

The expression as used in modern times, amounts to the same 616.

A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf.

Of Court. In old Scotch law. Certain officers of courts. See "Claves Curiae," Of the Isle of Man. The twenty-four chief commoners, who form the local legislature. 1 Steph. Comm. 99

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

An engrosser of corn to enhance its price,

The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or ohild from their own country, and sending them into another. 4 Bl. Comm. 219. Statutory definitions are somewhat differe

A measure of capacity, equal to eighteen gallons.

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

(1) A Dutch word, meaning the channel or bed of a stream. Sometimes applied to the stream itself. 1 Copst. (N. Y.) 107. (2) An Irish word, meaning church or cemetery. Enc. Lond.

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

Rslation or relationship by blood or consanguinity. "The nearness of kin is computed according to the civil law." 2 Kent, Comm. 413.

A garden of children was devised by Froebel, a German philosopher and educator, to apply to a system which he elaborated for the instruction of children of very tender years. "Chil

Relations by blood. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes: (1) His children, and their descendants. (2) His father, mother, and other ascendants.

The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power. The following table of the reigns of English and British kings and queens, commencing with the Conquest,

A country where an officer called a "king" exercises the of govdoms the executive officer may be a woman, who is called a "queen."

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

A version of the Bible published in London in 1611. 245 111. 343.

See "Court of King's Bench."

Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Qr«at Britain, which are inclosed within headlatids, so as to be cut off from the open sea by imagfinary straight lines drawn

In feudal law. A widow of the king's tenant. She was not allowed to.remain without the king's consent, lest she thereby induct the king's enemy into the tenure. KINSBOTE (from kin,

A term used by merchants and seafaring men to signify a ship's ballast. Merc. Diet.

An ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the English exchequer. So called from being the inquest of John de Kirby, treasurer to Edward I.

A ceremony used in taking the corporal oath; the object being, as the canonists say, to denote the assent of the witness to the oath in the form it is imposed. The witness kisses e

A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. This signification of the word has arisen by a long perversion of its original meaning, which was merely "servant" or "attendant"

In old English law. The portion of grain given to the servant in charge of a mill by tenants who were thirlpd to the mill.

In English law. The next personal dignity after the nobility. Of knights there are geveral orders and degrees. The first in rank are Knights of the Garter, instituted by Edward III

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

or KNIGHTENGYLD. An ancient guild or society formed by King Edgar.

The character, dignity, or status of a knight.

See "Knight."

See "Knight."

The word is a compound word, and may comprehend many things. And therefore by the grant of this may pass land, meadow and pasture as parcel of it. Anciently so much of an inheritan

An order of knights that had their name from a hospital erected at Jerusalem for the use of pilgrims coming to the Holy Land', and dedicated to St. John Baptist. They were afterwar

See "Knight."

See "Knight"

See "Knight"

In English law. Members.of parliament representing counties or shires, in contradistinction to citizens or burgesses, who represent boroughs or corporations. So called because, as

Upon the Norman conquest, all the lands in England were divided into knight's fees, in number above sixty thousand; and for every knight's fee a knight was bound to attend the king

An order of knights so called from having their first residence in some apartments adjoining the ity of pilgrims in the Holy Land. They came into England in the reign of Stephen, w

To accept a hid at an auction. So called from the fact that the auctioneer's acceptance of the bid is commonly signified hy a stroke of his hammer. "Knocked down" is synonymous wit

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

In pleading. 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

Positive assurance of a fact. It is not synonymous with "information," 21 Pac. 39, or "notice," 1 So. 777, and differs from "belief" in degree. The act or state of knowing; clear p

A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell.