Kmet

The lowest civil and criminal court is that of the village kmet, whose jurisdiction is confined to the limits of the commune; no corresponding tribunal exists in the towns. ❋ Various (N/A)

He would sometimes be a free man in one place and a kmet in another. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

This kmet-right was not hereditary in the female line; but the kmet could buy his portion -- this was an old right, which Austria regulated -- and become a free man, a beg. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

The Arpád rulers introduced the feudal system in opposition to public opinion, reorganized the nobility, and gave the lands taken from the peasants (kmet) to the holders of titles. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

(_obshtina_), urban or rural, has its _kmet_, or mayor, and council; the commune is bound to maintain its primary schools, a public library or reading-room, &c.; the kmet possesses certain magisterial powers, and in the rural districts he collects the taxes. ❋ Various (N/A)

_kmet_ at last able to rise against the oppressive landlord, there were in the first six months under fifty murders, and these were mostly due to the desperate straits of the Montenegrins, who came across the frontier in search of provisions, during which forays they assassinated various people. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)

Under the new order of things, with the State in support of the "usurping" peasant -- so that there are said to be in Bosnia about a thousand peasants who are millionaires (in crowns) -- there is no longer any dispute with regard to the "kmet" land, where the peasants with hereditary rights have become the owners; and with regard to the "begluk," which the beg used to let to anyone he pleased, it is only a question as to the degree of compensation. ❋ Henry Baerlein (1917)