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  • DROIT
    In French law. Right justice, equity, law, the whole body of law; also a right. This term exhibits the same ambiguity which is discoverable in the German equivalent, "recht" and the English word "right" On the one hand, these terms answer to the Roman "jus" and thus indicate law in More...
  • DROITURAL
    What belongs of right; relating to- right; as real actions are either droitural or possessory,-droitural when the plaintiff seeks to recover the property. Finch, Law, 257.
  • DROMONES, DROMOS, DROMUNDA
    These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we now call "men-of-war." Jacob.
  • DROP
    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 is neither discharged nor made absolute, and the rule is said to drop. In practice, there being a right to appeal, More...
  • DROP-LETTER
    A letter addressed for delivery in the same city or district in which it is posted.
  • DROVE
    A number of animals collected and driven together in a body; a flock or herd of cattle In process of being driven; indefinite as to number, but including at least several. Caldwell v. State, 2 Tex. App. 54; McConvill Jersey City, 39 N. J. Law, 43. -Drove-road. In Scotch law. More...
  • DROWN
    To merge or sink. "In some cases a right of freehold shall drown in a chattel.0 Co. Litt. 266a, 321a.
  • DRU
    A thicket of wood in a valley. Domesday.
  • DRUG
    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. More...
  • DRUGGIST
    A dealer in drugs; one whose business is to sell drugs and medicines. In strict usage, this term is to be distinguished from "apothecary." A druggist deals in the uncompounded medicinal substances; the business of an apothecary is to mix and compound them. But in America the two words are More...
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