Terms beginning with "K" (81 total)

KING’S CHAMBERS 688

per bench.” It. consisted of a chief justice aod three. puisne justices, who were by their office the sovereign conservators of the peace und supreme coroners of the land. It was u remnant of the aula regis, and was no...

Kinkaid, 40 Neb

178, 58 N. W. 700.—Geo to. In a statute, will, or other instrument, a direction that property shall “go to” a designated person means that it shall pass or proceed to

KLEPTOMANIA

perform in protecting the rights of the crown; c€. g., by instituting proceedings for the recovery of land by writs of intrusion, (g. v.,.) and for the recovery of legacy and succession duties; but of late years admini...

KNAVE

- KNAVE. A rascal; a false, tricky, or deceitful' person. The word originally meant a boy, attendant, or servant, but long-continued usage has given it its present signification.

KNOWLEDGE

jury. Hatch v. Carpenter, 9 Gray (Mass.) 271. See Utley v.: Hill, 155 Mo. 282, 55 8. W. 1091, 49 L. R. A. 323, 78 Am. St. Rep. 568; Ohio Valley Coffin Co. v. Goble, 28 Ind.

Koetting v. State, 88 Wis

502, 60 N. W. $22. In banking law, this kind of deposit is contrasted with a “general” deposit, as above: but in the civil law it is the antithesis of an “irregular” deposit. A gratuitous or naked deposit is a ba...

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Ky

468, 78 S. W. 163, 111 Am. St. Rep. 259; 183. 134, 44 S. W. 444; Railroad-Co. v. Smith, 71 Ark. 189, 71 S. W. 947; State v. New 769, 57 S. W. 501, 50 L. R. A. 383; Parks. v. State, 159 Ind. 211, 64 N. E. 862, 59 L. R....