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  • KILL
    v. To deprive of life; to destroy the life of an animal. The word "homicide" expresses the killing of a human being. See The Gcean Spray, 18 Fed. Cas. 559; Carroll v. White, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 620; Porter v. Hughey, 2 Bibb (Ky.) 232; Com. v. Clarke, 162 Mass. More...
  • KILL
    n. A Dutch word, signifying a channel or bed of the river, and hence the river or stream Itself. It is found used in this sense, in descriptions of land in old conveyances. French v. Carhart, 1 N.' Y. 96.
  • KILLYTH-STALLION
    A custom by which lords of manors were bound to provide a stallion for the use of their tenants' mares. Spelman.
  • KIN
    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 More...
  • KIND
    Genus; generic class; description. See IN KIND. -
  • KINDRED
    Relatives by blood. "Kindred of the whole blood, preferred to kindred of the half blood." 4 Kent Comm. 404, notes. See Butler v. Elyton Land Co., 84 Ala. 384, 4 South. 675; Farr v. Flood, 11 Cush. (Mass.) 25; Brookfield v. Allen, 6 Allen (Mass.) 586; Wetter v. Walker, 62 More...
  • KING
    The sovereign, ruler, or chief executive magistrate of a state or nation whose constitution is of the kind called "monarchical" is thus named if a man; if it be a woman, she is called "queen." The word expresses the idea of one who rules singly over a whole people or More...
  • KING'S ADVOCATE
    An English advocate who holds, In the courts in which the rules of the canon and civil law prevail, a similar position to that which the attorney general holds in the ordinary courts, i. e, he acts as counsel for the crown In ecclesiastical, admiralty, and probate cases, and advises More...
  • KING'S BENCH
    The supreme court of common law In England, being so called because the king used formerly to sit there In person, the style of the court being "coram ipso rege" It was called the "queen's bench" in the reign of a queen, and during the protectorate of Cromwell it was More...
  • KING'S CHAMBERS
    Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Great Britain, which are inclosed within headlands so as to be cut off from the open sea by imaginary straight lines drawn from one promontory to another.
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