Category: Legal Terms
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Knights Of The Shire
In English law. Members.of parliament representing counties or shires, in contradistinction to citizens or burgesses, who represent boroughs or corporations. So called because, as the terms of the writ for election still require, it was formerly necessary that he should be a knight. 2 Steph. […]
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Knight’s Fee
An estate sufficiently large to maintain a knight.
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Knights Bachelors
The most ancient, though the lowest, order of knighthood.
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Knights Banneret
Knights of the order which after certain other dignities ranked below the knights of the order of St. George, or of the garter.
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Knights Of The Bath
An order of knighthood which ranked next after the knights bannerets; so called from the ceremony of bathing the knights before their creation.
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Knights Of The Chamber
Maxims are established principles that jurists use as interpretive tools, invoked more frequently in international law
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Knave
A swindler; a cheat; a servant a rogue; one who has been guilty of dishonest acts.
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Knighthood
The character, dignity, or status of a knight.
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Kirby’s Quest
Ohn de Kirby’s inquest,-a record of ancient English surveys made by de Kirby in the reign of Edward the First.
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Kissing The Book
The act of kissing the Bible or Testament, often performed in taking an oath, especially an oath of office administered to one qualifying for high office, but not essential to the validity of any oath.
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Kinsbote
(from kin, and bote, a composition). In Saxon law. A composition for killing a kinsman. Anc. Inst. Eng. Index, Bote.
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King’s Widow
In feudal law. A widow of the king’s tenant. She was not allowed to.remain without the king’s consent, lest she thereby induct the king’s enemy into the tenure.
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King’s Bench
Bench. SSee court of king’s bench.
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King’s Chambers
Those portions of the seas, adjacent to the coasts of Great Britain, which are inclosed within headlatids, so as to be cut off from the open sea by imagfinary straight lines drawn from one promontory to another. Rapalje & L.
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King’s Counsel
Barristers learned in the law appointed counsel to His Majesty. They wear silk gowns, sit within the bar, and take precedence in Court over utter barristers (i. e., outer barristers).