Category: K

In English law. An engrosser of corn to enhance its price. Also a huckster.

In old English law. A dam or open wear in a river, with a loop or narrow cut in it, accommodated for the layiug of engines to catch fish. 2 lust. 38; Blount.

Rather rare coverage found in few markets. No standard rates exist. A financial institution protects itself in case a named employee is kidnapped and to be ransomed.

The forcible abduction or stealing away of a man, woman, or child from their own country, and sending them into another. It is an offense punishable at the common law by fine aud imprisonment. 4 Bl. Comm. 219. In American law, this word is seldom, if at all, applied to the abductiou of other per- sons than children, aud the intent to seud them out of the country does not seem to constitute a necessary part of the offense. The term is said to include false imprisonment. 2 Bish. Crim. Law,

A package crime policy typically has this type of insurance coverage. Covers the dangers of a person captured against that person’s will, beyond the insured’s property, forced to enable a criminal act, such as opening a safe or telling how to do it.

federal offense when a person is taken forcibly from one state to another or to a different country.

Parents usually dip into retirement monies to offset extra bills when an adult child returns home unable to live because the expense is too great.

A measure of eighteen gallons.

An ancient servile payment made by tenants in husbandry. Cowell.KILL, v. To deprive of life; to destroy the life of an animal. The word “homicide” expresses the killing of a human being. See The Ocean Spray, 18 Fed. Cas. 559; Carroll v. White, 33 Barb. (N. Y.) 620; Porter v. Hughey, 2 Bibb (Ky.) 232; Com. v. Clarke, 162 Mass. 495, 39 N. E. 280. KILL, n. A Dutch word, signifying a channel or bed of the river, and hence the river or stream itself. It is found used in this sense in descriptions of land in old conveyances. French v. Carhart, 1 N. Y. 96.

A guardian, warden, or keeper. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 71