Kain
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
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 superior as part of the reddendum. Ersk. Inst. 11. 10. 32; 2 Boss, Lect. 236, 405.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
sc In Scots law. In ancient grants, the fowls or animals payable to the superior; in modern practice, the poultry, etc., payable by a tenant to his landlord in terms of his lease.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Scotch law. Poultry renderable by a vassal to his superior, reserved in the lease as the whole or a part of the rent, Bell.