Tag: KI
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Kinless
Without kindred; without relatives. …
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King’s Year, Day And Waste
See year, day and waste. …
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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 Silver
Sometimes called the post fine,-an ancient revenue of the king which was due him by royal prerogative and which was required to be paid into the royal treasury at the second stage of a proceeding of levying a fine for alienation of land. …
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King’s Premier Serjeant
The first in rank of the king’s serjeants, so constituted by letters patent and having the first right of pre-audience. …
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King’s Peace
See peace of the king. …
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King’s Highways
The federal highways in Canada. See royal streams. …
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King’s Justiciars
Certain persons learned in the law who acted as assistants to the high officers of state who composed the royal hall. …
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King’s Keys
Such axes, bars, and other implements as were used to force an entry to serve a warrant of the king. …
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Kings Of England
See regnal years. …
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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 Bench Division
A department of the English high court of justice. …
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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).
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King’s Council
A court which, during the Norman period, followed the person of the king. …