Category: K

A hundred pounds in weight. See QUINTAL.

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

A duty paid by shopkeepers in Hiudostan, who retail spirituous liquors; also the place where spirituous liquors are sold. Wharton.

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 the small space

An ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry. Cowell.KILL, v. To deprive of life; to destroy the life of an animal. The word “homicide” expresses the killing of a human being.

A ship’s ballast. See KENTLAGE

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

In English ecclesiastical law. Rural chapters, or conventions of the rural deans and parochial clergy, which were formerly held on the calends of every month; hence the name. Paroch. Antiq. 604.

The division of a county; a hundred in Wales. See CANTBED.

Relation or relationship by blood or consanguinity. “The nearness of kin is com- puted according to the civil law.” 2 Kent, Comm. 413. See Keniston v. Mayhew, 169 Mass. 160, 47 N.

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.

A title formerly given to the Lollards. Cowell.

An account of time, exhibiting the days of the week and month, the seasons, etc. More commonly spelled “calendar.”

A series of resolutions drawn up by Jefferson, and adopted by the legislature of Kentucky in 1799, protesting against the “alien and sedi- tion laws,” declaring their illegality, announcing the strict constructionist

Genus; generic class; description. See IN KIND.

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

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

In the civil law. A calendar; a book of accounts, memorandum- book, or debt-book; a book in which accounts were kept of moneys loaned out on interest. Dig. 32, 04. So called

The jagged end of a stick of wood made by the cutting. Pub. St. Mass. 1S82, p. 1292.

Relatives by blood. “Kindred of the whole blood, preferred to kindred of the half blood.” 4 Kent, Comm. 404, notes. See Butler v. Elytou Land Co., 84 Ala. 384, 4 South. 675;