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Kill fee
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Kill feeKill Fee/ Rejection fee. Partial compensation given to a writer for work that the publisher does not use, or on an assignment that is terminated before completion.
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Fee
1) Feudal law. An allotment of land in consideration of military service; land held of a superior, on condition of rendering him service, the ultimate property remaining in him. Oppossed to allodium. 2) An estate of inheritance - the highest and most extensive interest a man can have in a feud.
Compensation
1) Contracts. A reward for services rendered. 2) Crim. law; Compeusatio crimiuura, or recrimination. 3) Remedies. The damages recovered for an injury, or the violation of a contract.
Publisher
One who does by himself or his agents make a thing publicly known; one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.
Use
1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
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Kill Bill
A movie, not to do with the legal concept of murder or wrongful death.
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Key number system
A research aid developed by West Publishing Company which classifies digests of cases in to various law topics and subtopics which are given paragraph numbers called "Key Numbers." Each key number for a given topic helps the researcher quickly find all references to the legal matter being researched.
Keyage
A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf.
Kickback
A payment by a vendor to an employee at the request of the employee in order for the vendor to receive favorable treatment.
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.
Kill fee
Kin
A blood or marriage relative; as in "next of kin" refers to the closest relative.
Kindred
Relations by blood. 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.
King
The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power.
Kingdom
A country where an officer called a king exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or limited. Wolff, Inst. Nat. 994. In some kingdoms the executive officer may be a woman, who is called a queen.
King's bench
The name of the supreme court of law in England. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there in person, the style of the court being still coram ipso rege, before the king himself. During the reign of a queen, it is called the Queen's Bench, and during the protectorate of Cromwell, it was called the Upper Bench. It consists of a chief justices and three other judges, who are, by their office, the principal coroners and conservators of the peace.
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Fee
1) Feudal law. An allotment of land in consideration of military service; land held of a superior, on condition of rendering him service, the ultimate property remaining in him. Oppossed to allodium. 2) An estate of inheritance - the highest and most extensive interest a man can have in a feud.
Compensation
1) Contracts. A reward for services rendered. 2) Crim. law; Compeusatio crimiuura, or recrimination. 3) Remedies. The damages recovered for an injury, or the violation of a contract.
Publisher
One who does by himself or his agents make a thing publicly known; one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.
Use
1) Estates. A confidence reposed in another, who was made tenant of the land or terre tenant, that he should dispose of the land according to the intention of the cestui que use, or him to whose use it was granted, and suffer him to take the profits. 2) Civil law. A right of receiving so much of the natural profits of a thing as is necessary to daily sustenance; it differs from usufruct, which is a right not only to use but to enjoy.
Assignment
The release by an afdc recipient of all rights to support arrearages owed the recipient and of the right to receive current child support as the result of the receipt of afdc.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Kill Bill
A movie, not to do with the legal concept of murder or wrongful death.
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Key number system
A research aid developed by West Publishing Company which classifies digests of cases in to various law topics and subtopics which are given paragraph numbers called "Key Numbers." Each key number for a given topic helps the researcher quickly find all references to the legal matter being researched.
Keyage
A toll paid for loading and unloading merchandise at a key or wharf.
Kickback
A payment by a vendor to an employee at the request of the employee in order for the vendor to receive favorable treatment.
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.
Kill fee
Kin
A blood or marriage relative; as in "next of kin" refers to the closest relative.
Kindred
Relations by blood. 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.
King
The chief magistrate of a kingdom, vested usually with the executive power.
Kingdom
A country where an officer called a king exercises the powers of government, whether the same be absolute or limited. Wolff, Inst. Nat. 994. In some kingdoms the executive officer may be a woman, who is called a queen.
King's bench
The name of the supreme court of law in England. It is so called because formerly the king used to sit there in person, the style of the court being still coram ipso rege, before the king himself. During the reign of a queen, it is called the Queen's Bench, and during the protectorate of Cromwell, it was called the Upper Bench. It consists of a chief justices and three other judges, who are, by their office, the principal coroners and conservators of the peace.
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