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

KEYAGE. A toll 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 applied, in England, to vessels 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 collateral relations; which include, in the first place, his brothers and sisters, and their descendants and, secondly, his uncles, cousins, and other relations of either sex, who have not descended from a brother or sister of the deceased. All kindred then are descendants, ascendants, or collaterals. 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 magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power. 2. The following table of the reigns 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.............................................. 1216Edward I............................................... 1272Edward II.............................................. 1307Edward III............................................. 1307Richard II............................................. 1377Henry IV.............................................. 1399Henry V............................................... 1413Henyv VI.............................................. 1422Edward IV............................................. 1461Edward V.............................................. 1483Richard III........................................... 1483Henry VII............................................. 1485Henry VIII............................................ 1509Edward VI............................................. 1547Mary.................................................. 1553Elizabeth............................................. 1558James I............................................... 1603Charles I............................................. 1625Charles II............................................ 1660'James II.............................................. 1685William III........................................... 1689Anne.................................................. 1702George I.............................................. 1714George II............................................. 1727George III............................................ 1760George IV............................................. 1820William IV............................................ 1830Victoria.............................................. 1837

Vide article Reports.