key

An instrument made for closing and opening a lock. The keys of a house are considered as real estate, and descend to the heir with the Inheritance; 11 Co. 50 &; 30 E. L. & Eq. 698; but although they follow the inheritance, they are not fixtures, so far as that the taking of them is not larceny; Hoskins v. Tarrence, 5 Blackf. (Ind.) 417, 35 Am. Dec. 129; 5 Taunt. 518. When the keys of a warehouse are delivered to a purchaser of goods locked up there, with a view of effecting a delivery of such goods, the delivery is complete. The doctrine of the civil law is the same; Dig. 41. 1. 9. 6; 18. 1. 74; Benj. Sales, 6th Am. ed. § 1043; 3 Term 464. See Donatio Mortis Causa; Gift. Keys are implements of housebreaking within statute 14 & 15 Viet. c. 19, § 1; for, though commonly used for lawful purposes they are capable of being employed for purposes of housebreaking; and it Is a question, for the Jury whether the person found in possession of them by night had them without lawful excuse, with the intention of using them as implements of housebreaking; 3 C. & K. 250; and the statute was held to include skeleton, or any other kind of key used for purposes of housebreaking; id. Entering by a key left in the door locked on the outside is not housebreaking; 1 Swint. Jus. Cas. 433. See Burglary.

<A wharf for the lading and unlading of merchandise from vessels. More com- a monly spelled “quay.” An instrament for fastening and opening a lock. This appears as an English word as early as the time of Bracton, in the phrase “cone et keye,” be ing applied to women at a certain to denote M

See Donatio, Mortis, etc.; Hous: KIDNAPINa.i The forcible abductic or stealing away of a man, woman, or chi from his or her own country, and sending i taking him or her into another country.^ The equivalent of abduction, q. v. Bringing into the United States any person inveigl or kidnaped in any 'other countiT with intent to ho such person to involuntary servitude (g. «.) is a felon punishable with as much as five years imprisonme and five thousand dollars fine.^ Physical force is not necessary. The crime is us ally committed by threats. It is sufficient to show mind operated upon by falsely exciting the fears, 1 threats, or other undue influence, amounting substa tially to a coercion of the will, as a substitute for vi lence. The condition of the person kidnaped, the ag education, condition of mind, and other circumstanc* are to be considered.* See Extradition.

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.;