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KIND

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Genus; generic class; description. See IN KIND. … [Read more...]

KINTLIDGE

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merc. law. This term is used by merchants and seafaring men to signify a ship's ballast. Mere. Dict. See KENTLAGE. … [Read more...]

KNIGHT-MARSHAL

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In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses committed within the household and verge, and of all contracts made therein, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton. … [Read more...]

KINDRED

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Relations by blood. 2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and other ascendants. 3. His collateral relations; which include, in the first place, his brothers and sisters, and their descendants and, secondly, his uncles, cousins, and other relations of either sex, who have not … [Read more...]

KIPPER-TIME

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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-Thames, was forbidden. Rot Pari. 50 Edw. III. … [Read more...]

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