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  • KAIA
    A key, kay, or quay. Spelman.
  • KAIAGE, OR KAIAGIUM
    A wharfage-due. "
  • KAIN
    In Scotch law. Poultry render-able by a vassal to his superior, reserved In the lease as the whole or a part of the rent. Bell.
  • KALALOONNA
    A duty paid by shopkeepers In Hindostan, who retail spirituous liquors; also the place where spirituous liquors are sold. Wharton.
  • KALENDAE
    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, vparoch. Antiq. 604.
  • KALENDAR
    An account of time, exhibiting the days of the week and month, the seasons, etc. More commonly spelled "calendar."
  • KALENDARIUM
    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, 64. So called because the Romans used to let out their money and receive the interest on the calends of each month. More...
  • KALENDS
    See CALENDS.
  • KARL
    In Saxon and old English law A man; a serving man. Bunkarh a seaman. Buskarl, a house servant. Spelman.
  • KARRATA
    In old records. A cart-load. Cowell; Blount
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