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KNOCK OFF

1. A very similar looking product copy a patented, trademarked, or copyrighted product or work that is cheaper as an illegal version. 2. A cheaper version of a higher-priced material or product

KNOWLEDGE-BASED PAY

Earnings system that compensates employees skill level proficiency and gained education. The employee incentive is improve skills set and education. Reaching certain goals in education, training and skill development translates into higher

KESCEIT

Res mobiles. In the civil law. Movable things; things which may be transported from one place to another, without injury to their substance and form. Things corresponding with the chattels personal of

KEYAGE

A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf. Rowan v. Portland, 8 B. Mou. (Ky.) 253.KEYS 687 KING’S BENCH

KNOWINGLY

With knowledge; consciously; intelligently. The use of this word in an indictment is equivalent to an averment that the defendant knew what he was about to do, and, with such knowledge, proceeded

KEYS

In the Isle of Man, are the twenty- four chief commoners, who form the local legislature. X Steph. Comm. 99. In old English law. A guardian, warden, or keeper.

KIPPER-TIME

In old English law. The space of time between the 3d of May and the Epiphany, in which fishing for salmon in the Thames, between Gravesend and Henley- on-Tliames, was forbidden. Rot.

KNOWLEDGE

The difference between “knowledge” and “belief” is nothing more than in the degree of certainty. With regard to things which make not a very deep impression on the memory, it may be

K B

An abbreviation for “King’s Bench,” (g. v.)

KAZY

A Mohammedan judge or magistrate in the East Indies, appointed originally by the court at Delhi, to administer justice according to their written law. Under the British authorities their judicial functions ceased,

KEYUS

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

KIRBY’S QUEST

In English law. An aucieut record remaining with the remembrancer of the exchequer, being an inquisition or survey of all the lands iu England, taken in the reign of Edward I. by

KORAN

The Mohammedan book of faith. It contains both ecclesiastical and secular laws.

K C

An abbreviation for “King’s Counsel.”

KEELAGE

The right to demand money for the privilege of anchoring a vessel in a harbor; also the money so paid.

KHALSA

In Hindu law. An office of government in which the business of the revenue department was transacted uuder the Mohammedan government, and during the early period of British rule. Khalsa lauds are

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