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In English law. The next personal dignity after the nobility. Of knights there are several orders and degrees. The first in rank are knights of the Garter, Instituted by Richard I. and improved by Edward III. in 1344; next follows a knight banneret; then come knights of the Bath, instituted by Henry IV., and revived by George I.; and they were so called from a ceremony of … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A custom by which lords of manors were bound to provide a stallion for the use of their tenants' mares. Spelman. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A blood relative, usually relating to a male. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A court which used to be held twice a year by the bishop of Hereford, in England. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A relative by blood. Relation or relationship by blood or consanguinity. "The nearness of KIN is computed according to the civil law." 2 Kent, Comm. 413. See Keniston v. Mayhew, 169 Mass. 166, 47 N. E. 612 ; Hibbard v. Gdell, 16 Wis. 635; Lusby v. Cobb,. 80 Miss. 715, 32 South, a As to "next of kin," see NEXT. Klnsbote. In Saxon law. A composition or satisfaction paid for … [Read more...]