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  • KING'S CORONER AND ATTORNEY
    An officer of the court of king's bench, usually called "the master of the crown office," whose duty it is to file informuilous at the suit of a private subject by direction of the court. 4 Bl. Comm. 308, 309 ; 4 Steph. Comm. 374, 378.
  • KING'S COUNSEL
    Barristers or Serjeants who have been called within the bar and selected to be the king's counsel. They answer in some measure to the advocati fisat or advocates of the revenue, among the Romans. They must not be employed against the crown without special leave, which is, however, always granted, More...
  • KING'S EVIDENCE
    When several persons are charged with a crime, and one of them gives evidence against his accomplices, on the promise of being granted a pardon, he is said to be admitted king's or (in America) state's evidence. 4 Steph. Comm. 395; Sweet.
  • KING'S PROCTOR
    A proctor or solicitor representing the crown in the former practice of the courts of probate and divorce. In petitions for dissolution of marriage, or for declarations of nullity of marriage, the king's proctor may, under the direction of the attorney general, and by leave of the court, intervene in More...
  • KING'S REMEMBRANCER
    An officer of the central office of the English supreme court. Formerly he was an officer of the exchequer, and had important duties to perform in protecting the rights of the crown; e. g. by instituting proceedings for the recovery of land by writs of intrusion, (q. v.,) and for More...
  • KINGDOM
    A country where an officer called a "king" exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or limited. Wolff, lust Nat I 994.' In some kingdoms, the executive officer may be a woman, who is called a "queen."
  • KINGS-AT-ARMS
    The principal herald of England was of old designated "king of the heralds," a title which seems to have been exchanged for "king-at-arms" about the reign of Henry IV. The kings-at-arms at present existing in England are three,-Garter, Clarenceux, and Norroy, besides Lath, who is not a member of the More...
  • KINTAL, OR KINTLE
    A hundred pounds in weight. See QUINTAL.
  • KINTLIDGE
    A ship's ballast See KENTLAGE.
  • KIPPER-TIME
    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.-
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