Category: D

In old European law. The commander of a drungus, or band of soldiers. Applied also to a naval command-er. Spelman

A term applied to commercial agents who travel for wholesale mer-chants and supply the retail trade with goods, or take orders for goods to be ship-ped to the retail dealer. Robbins v. Shelby County Taxing Dist., 120 U. S. 489, 7 Sup. Ct 592, 30 L. Ed. 694; Singleton v. Fritsch, 4 Lea (Tenn.) 96; […]

The general name of substances used in medicine; any substance, vegetable, animal, or mineral, used in the composition or preparation of medicines. The term is also applied to materials used in dyeing and in chemistry. See Collins v. Banking Co., 79 N. C. 281, 28 Am. Rep. 322; U. S. v. Merck, 66 Fed. 251, […]

A number of animals collected and driven together in a body; a flock or herd of cattle ln process of heing driven; indefinite as to number, but Including at least several. Caldwell v. State, 2 Tex. App. 54; McConvill v. Jersey City, 39 N. J. Law, 43

A letter addressed for dellvery ln the same dty or district in which lt is posted

In English practice, when the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order is made, i. e., the rule ls nei-ther discharged nor made absolute, and the rule ls said to drop. In practice, there be-ing a rlght to appeal, lt has been usual to […]

In Frenob law. Right, jus-tlce, equity, law, the whole body of law; al-so a right

Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants to the king, or their landlords, for driving thelr cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell; Blount

or DROFDENNE. A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob

one employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with hones, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or motor car, though not a street railroad car. See Davis v. Petrlnovich, 112 Ala. 654, 21 Sonth. 344, 36 L. R. A. 615; Gen. St Conn. 1902, f 2038; Isaacs v. Rail-road Co., […]

A Bpecies of easement or servitude obligating one man to permit the wa-ter falling from another man’s house to fall upon his own land. 3 Kent, Comm. 436

A place where Intoxicating liquors are sold, bartered, or de-livered to be drunk on the premlses. Port-land v. Schmidt, 13 or. 17, 6 Pac. 22L

Sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards a potation, or ale, provided to entertain the lord, or his steward. Cowell. See Cbb-visabii

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but

The tenure by whlch the drenches, or drenges, held thelr lands

S, or DRENGES. In Saxon, law. Tenants in capite. They are said to; be such as, at the coming of william the Conqueror, being put out of their estates, were afterwards restored to them, on their making it appear that they were the trne owners thereof, and neither in auxilio or consilio against him. Spelman

Droit-droit. Double1 right. A union of the rlght of possession: and the right of property. 2 B1. Comm. 199

A charge for the transpor-tation of property In wheeled vehlcles, such as drays, wagons, and carts. Soule v. San Franclsco Gaslight Co., 54 Cal. 242

Thieves; robbers. Cowell

In patent law. A representation of the appearance of material ob-jects by means of lines and marks upon pa-per, card-board, or other substance. Ampt v. Cincinnati, 8 Ohio Dec. 628

The person making a bill of exchange and addressing It to the drawee. Stevenson v. walton, 2 Smedes & M. (Miss.) 265; winnebago County State Bank v. Hustel, 119 Iowa, 115, 93 N. W. 70

A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is request* ed to pay the amount of mouey therein mentioned

In the customs laws, thls term denotes an allowance made by the gov-ernment npon the duties due on Imported merchandise when the importer, instead of selling lt here, re-exports it; or the refund-ing of such duties lf already paid. This allowance amounts, ln some cases, to the whole of the original duties; In others, to […]

In old oriminal praotioe

In copy-right law. A literary work setting forth a story, incident, or scene from life, in which, however, the narrative is not related, hut is represented by a dialogue and action; may include a descriptive poem set to music, or a pantoinine, but not a composition for musical instruments alone, nor a mere spectacu-lar exhibition […]

In common parlance, this term means a drink of some substance containing alcohol, something which can produce In-toxicatlon. Lacy v. State, 32 Tex. 228

An interpreter employed ln the east, and particularly at the Turkish court

Any one who draws or frames a legal document, e.g., a will, con-veyance, pleading, etc

The common term for a blll of exchange; as being drawn by one person on another. Hinnemann v. Rosenkack, 39 N. V. 100; Douglass v. wilkeson, 6 wend. (N

A code of laws prepared by Draco, the celebrated lawgiver of Athens. These laws were exceedingly severe, and the term ls now sometimes ap-plied to any laws of unusual harshness

The standard, ensign, or military colors borne ln war by the an-clent kings of England, having the figure of a dragon painted thereon

A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat Townsh. Pl. 180.

Twelve peers assembled at the instance of the barons, ln the reign of Henry III., to be privy counselors, or rather conservators of the kingdom

L. Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. SL 18 Edw. II.; Bar-ring. ob. St. 208

A woman entitled to dower ; a tenant in dower. 2 P. wms. 707

In old English law. En-dowment; dower. Grogan v. Garrison, 27 ohio St 61

Stones dlviding lands, etc. Cowell

The provision which the law makes for a widow out of the lauds or teue-ments of her husband, for her support and the nurture of her children. Co. Lltt. 30a

A widow who is endowed, or who has a jointure in lieu of dower. In England, this is a title or addition given to the widows of princes, dukes, earls, and other noblemen, to distinguish them from the wives of the heirs, who have right to bear the title

Subject to be charged with dower; as dowable lands

Uncertainty of mlnd; the ab-sence of a settled opinion or conviction; the attitude of mind towards the acceptance of or belief ln a proposition, theory, or statement, ln which the judgment is not at rest but inclines alternately to either side. Rowe v. Baber. 93 Ala. 42?, 8 South. 865; Smith v. Railway Co., 143 […]

Letters-pa tent Cowell

Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two. This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as ln popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it en-ters are noted below

A dowager

Admeasurement of dower, where the widow holds more than her share, etc

A writ which lies for a widow to whom uo dower has been assigned. 3 Bl. Comm. 182. By 23 & 24 VicL c. 126, an ordinary action commenced by writ of summons has taken its place; bnt it remains in force in the United States. Dower unde nihil habet (which title see

The act of giving a dowry or portion; endowment in general, including the endowment of a hospital or other charitable institution

Relating to the dos or portion of a woman; constituting her portion; corn-prised ln her portion

(Contracted from dormiture.) A dormitory of a convent; a place to sleep in

Lat. The back. In dorao recordi, on the back of the record. 5 Coke, 44b