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  • DOZEIN
    L. Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. St 18 Edw. II.; Barring. Ob. St. 208.
  • DOZEN PEERS
    Twelve peers assembled at the instance of the barons, in the reign of Henry III., to be privy counselors, or rather conservators of the kingdom.
  • DR.
    An abbreviation for "doctor;" also, in commercial usage, for "debtor," indicating the items or particulars in a bill or in an account-book chargeable against the person to whom the bill Is rendered or in whose name the account stands, as opposed to "Cr." ("credit" or "creditor"), which indicates the items More...
  • DRACHMA
    A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat Townsh. PL 180. An Athenian silver coin, of the value of about fifteen cents.
  • DRACO REGIS
    The standard, ensign, or military colors borne in war by the ancient kings of England, having the figure of a dragon painted thereon.
  • DRACONIAN LAWS
    A code of laws prepared by Draco, the celebrated lawgiver of Athens. These laws were exceedingly severe, and the term is now sometimes applied to any laws of unusual harshness.
  • DRAFT
    The common term for a bill of exchange; as being drawn by one person on another. Hinnemann v. Rosenback, 39 N. Y. 100; Douglass v. Wilkeson, 6 Wend. (N. Y.) 643. An order for the payment of money drawn by one person on another. It is said to be a More...
  • DRAFTSMAN
    Any one who draws or frames a legal document, e. g., a will, conveyance, pleading, etc.
  • DRAGOMAN
    An interpreter employed in the east and particularly at the Turkish court.
  • DRAIN
    v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous moisture by adapting or improving natural watercourses and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches. People v. Tarks, 58 Cal. 639.
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