Legal Term Dictionary

This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed In the carriage of coals. Jacob.

This word is applied, in England, to vessels employed In the carriage of coals. Jacob. Less...

n. A strong tower or hold In the middle of any castle or fortification, wherein the besieged make their last efforts of defense, was formerly, In England, called a "keep;" and the inner pile within the castle of Dover, erected by King Henry II. about the year 1153, was termed More...

n. A strong tower or hold In the middle of any castle or fortification, wherein the besieged make their last efforts of defense, was formerly, In England, called a "keep;" and the inner pile within the castle of Dover, erected by King Henry II. about the year 1153, was termed the "King's Keep;" so at Windsor, etc. It seems to be something of the same nature with what is called abroad a "citadel." Jacob. Less...

v. 1. To retain In one's power.or possession; not to lose or part with; to preserve or retalu. Benson v. New York, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 235; Deans v. Gay, 132 N. C. 227, 43 S. E. 643. 2. To maintain, carry on, conduct, or manage; as, to "keep" a More...

v. 1. To retain In one's power.or possession; not to lose or part with; to preserve or retalu. Benson v. New York, 10 Barb. (N. Y.) 235; Deans v. Gay, 132 N. C. 227, 43 S. E. 643. 2. To maintain, carry on, conduct, or manage; as, to "keep" a liquor saloon, bawdy house, gaming table, nuisance, Inn, or hotel State v. Irvin, 117 Iowa, 460, 91 N. W. 760; People v. Rice, 103 Mich. 350, 61 N. W 540; State v. Miller, 68 Conn. 373, 36 Atl. .795; State v. Cox, 52 Vt. 474." 3. To maintain, tend, harbor, feed, and shelter; as. to "keep" a dangerous animal, to "keep" a horse at livery. Allen v. Ham, 63 Me. 536; Skinner v. Caughey. 64 Minn. 375, 67 N. W. 203." 4. To maintain continuously and methodically for the purposes of a record; as, to" "keep" books. See Backus v. Richardson, 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 483. 5. To maintain continuously and without stoppage or variation; as, when a vessel is said to "keep her course," that is, continue in motion in the same general direction In which she was previously sailing. See The Britannia, 153 U. S. 130, 14 Sup. Ct. 795, 38 L. Ed. 060. -Keep down interest. The expression "keeping down interest" is familiar in legal instruments, and means the payment of interest periodically as it becomes due; but it does not include the payment of all arrears of interest which may have become due on any security from the time when it was executed. 4 El. & Bl. 211.-Keep house. The English bankrupt laws use the phrase "keeping house" to denote an act of bankruptcy. It is committed when a trader absents himself from his place of business and retires to his private residence to evade the importunity of creditors. The usual evidence of keeping house" is refusal to see a creditor who has called on the debtor at his house for money. Robs. Bankr. 119.-Keep in repair. When a lessee is bound to keep the premises in repair, he must have them in repair at all times during the term; and, if they are at any time out of repair, he is guilty of a breach of the covenant 1 Barn. & Aid. 585.-Keep open. To allow general access to one's shop, for purposes of traffic, is a violation of a statute forbidding him to "keep open" his shop on the Lord's day, although the outer entrances are closed. Com. v. Harrison, 11 Gray (Mass.) 308. To "keep open," in the sense of such a law, implies a readiness to carry on the usual business in the store, shop, saloon, etc. Lynch v. People, 16 Mich. 472.-Keeping term. In English law. A duty performed by students of law, consisting in eating a sufficient number of dinners in hall to make the term count for the purpose of being called to the bar. Mozley A Whitley.-Keeping the peace. Avoiding a breach of tbe peace; dissuading or preventing others from .breaking the peace. Less...

A custodian, manager, or superintendent; one who has the care, custody, or management of any thing or place. Schultz v. State, 32 Ghlo St. 281; State v. Rosum, 8 N. D. 548, 80 N. W. 481; Fishell v. Morris, 57 Conn. 547, 18 Atl. 717, 6 L. R. A. 82; More...

A custodian, manager, or superintendent; one who has the care, custody, or management of any thing or place. Schultz v. State, 32 Ghlo St. 281; State v. Rosum, 8 N. D. 548, 80 N. W. 481; Fishell v. Morris, 57 Conn. 547, 18 Atl. 717, 6 L. R. A. 82; McCoy v. Zane, 65 Mo. 15; Stevens v. People, 67 111. 590. -keeper of the Forest. In old English law. An officer (called also chief warden of the forest) who had the principal government of all things relating to the forest, and the control of all officers belonging to the same. Cowell; Blount.-Keeper of tne great seaL In English law. A high officer oi state, through whose hands pass all charters, grants, and commissions of the king under the great seal. He is styled "lord keeper of the great seal," and this office and that of lord chancellor are united under one person; for the authority of the lord keeper and that of the lord chancellor were, by St. 5 Eliz. c. 18, declared to be exactly the same; and. like the lord chancellor, the lord keeper at the present day is created by the mere delivery of the king's great seal into his custody. Brown.-Keeper of the king's, eon* seience. A name sometimes applied to the chancellor of England, as being formerly an ecclesiastic and presiding over the royal chapel. 3 Bl. Comm. 48.-Keeper of the privy seal. In English law. An officer through whose hands pass all charters signed by the king before they come to the great seal. He is a privy councillor, and was anciently called "clerk of the privy seal," but Is now generally called the "lord privy seal." Brown.-Keeper of the touch. The master of the assay in the English mint. 12 Hen. YI. c. 14. Less...

An edict or award between Henry III. and those who had been in arms against him; so called because made at Kenilworth Castle, in Warwickshire, anno 51 Hen. III., A. D. 1266. It contained a composition of those who had forfeited their estates in that rebellion, which composition was five More...

An edict or award between Henry III. and those who had been in arms against him; so called because made at Kenilworth Castle, in Warwickshire, anno 51 Hen. III., A. D. 1266. It contained a composition of those who had forfeited their estates in that rebellion, which composition was five years' rent of the estates forfeited. Wharton. Less...

In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband's lands which belong to the widow in right of her terce or dower. Bell.

In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband's lands which belong to the widow in right of her terce or dower. Bell. Less...

In maritime law. A permanent ballast, consisting usually of pigs of iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of its superior cleanliness, and the small space occupied by it, is frequently preferred to ordinary ballast Abb. Shipp. 5.

In maritime law. A permanent ballast, consisting usually of pigs of iron, cast in a particular form, or other weighty material, which, on account of its superior cleanliness, and the small space occupied by it, is frequently preferred to ordinary ballast Abb. Shipp. 5. Less...

The division of a county; a hundred in Wales. See CANTBBD. '

The division of a county; a hundred in Wales. See CANTBBD. ' Less...

A series of resolutions drawn up by Jefferson, and adopted by the legislature of Kentucky in 1799, protesting against the "alien and sedition laws," declaring their Illegality, announcing the strict constructionist theory of the federal government, and declaring "nullification" to be "the rightful remedy."

A series of resolutions drawn up by Jefferson, and adopted by the legislature of Kentucky in 1799, protesting against the "alien and sedition laws," declaring their Illegality, announcing the strict constructionist theory of the federal government, and declaring "nullification" to be "the rightful remedy." Less...

The jagged end of a stick of wood made by the cutting. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1292.

The jagged end of a stick of wood made by the cutting. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1292. Less...