KEY, estates. A wharf¹ at which to land goods from, or to load them in a vessel². This word is now generally spelled Quay³, from the French, quai.

KEYAGE. A toll⁴ paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf.

KEELAGE. The right of demanding money for the bottom of ships resting in a port or harbor. The money so paid is also called keelage.

KEELS. This word is applied⁵, in England, to vessels⁶ employed in the carriage of coals. Jacob, L. D.

KIDNAPPING. The forcible and unlawful abduction and conveying away of a man, woman, or child, from his or her home, without his or her will or consent, and sending such person away, with an intent to deprive him or her of some right. This is an offence at common law.

KILDERKIN. A measure of capacity equal to eighteen gallons. See Measure.

KINDRED. Relations by blood.

2. Nature has divided the kindred of every one into three principal classes. 1. His children, and their descendants. 2. His father, mother, and other ascendants. 3. His collateral⁷ relations; which include, in the first place, his brothers and sisters, and their descendants and, secondly⁸, his uncles, cousins, and other relations of either sex, who have not descended⁹ from a brother or sister of the deceased. All kindred then are descendants, ascendants, or collaterals¹⁰. A hushand or wife of the deceased, therefore, is not his or her kindred. 14 Ves. 372. Vide Wood's Inst. 50; Ayl. Parerg. 325; Dane's Ab. h. t.; Toll. Ex. 382, 8; 2 Chit. Bl. Com. 16, n. 59 Poth. Des Successions, c. 1, art. 3.

KING. The chief magistrate¹¹ of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power. 2. The following table of the reigns¹² of English and British kings and queens, commencing with the Reports, is added, to assist the student in many points of chronology.

							Accession.
Henry III.............................................. 1216
Edward I............................................... 1272
Edward II.............................................. 1307
Edward III............................................. 1307
Richard II............................................. 1377
Henry IV..............................................  1399
Henry V...............................................  1413
Henyv VI..............................................  1422
Edward IV.............................................  1461
Edward V..............................................  1483
Richard III...........................................  1483
Henry VII.............................................  1485
Henry VIII............................................  1509
Edward VI.............................................  1547
Mary..................................................  1553
Elizabeth.............................................  1558
James I...............................................  1603
Charles I.............................................  1625
Charles II............................................  1660'
James II..............................................  1685
William III...........................................  1689
Anne..................................................  1702
George I..............................................  1714
George II.............................................  1727
George III............................................  1760
George IV.............................................  1820
William IV............................................  1830
Victoria..............................................  1837

Vide article Reports.