Crossword-Solution: KMET 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Entering the house he demanded money of his aged mother, who indignantly refused him--he seems to have been a bad lot altogether--and as he threatened to take it by force, she hurriedly called in the village kmet, or mayor, to protect her.

Every commune (_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.

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.

And yet in the whole country, with people on the track of those who in the pay of Austria had denounced or murdered their relatives, and with the poor _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.

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.