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KEELAGE . The right of demanding money for the bottom of ...
KEELS . This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed ...
KENTUCKY . The name of one of the new states of ...
Kentucky </center> <pre>Hughes' Reports. From 1785 to ...
KEY . An instrument made for shutting and opening a lock. ...
KEY, estates. A wharf at which to land goods from, or ...
KEYAGE . A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at ...
KIDNAPPING . The forcible and unlawful abduction and conveying away of a ...
KILDERKIN . A measure of capacity equal to eighteen gallons. See Measure. ...
KINDRED . Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the ...
KING . The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with ...
KING'S BENCH . The name of the supreme court of law in ...
KINGDOM . A country where an officer called a king exercises ...
KINTLIDGE merc. law. This term is used by merchants and seafaring men ...
KIRBY'S QUEST . An ancient record remaining with the remembrancer of the English ...
KISSING . Kissing the bible is a ceremony used in taking ...
KNAVE . A false, dishonest, or deceitful person. This signification of the ...
KNIGHT'S FEE old Eng. law. An uncertain measure of land, but, according to ...
KNIGHT'S SERVICE Eng. law. It was, formerly, a tenure of lands. Those who ...
KNOWINGLY pleadings. The word knowingly," or "well knowing," will supply the place ...
KNOWLEDGE . Information as to a fact. 2. Many acts are ...
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