A person is “drunk” wben be is so far under the Influence of liquor that hls passions are visibly excited or his judg-inent impaired, or when his brain is so far affected by potations of liquor that hls in-telligence, sense-perceptions, judgment, con-tinulty of thought or of Ideas, speech, and co-ordination of volition with muscular ac-tion (or some of these faculties or process-es) are impaired or not under normal con-trol. State v. Pierce, 65 Iowa, 85, 21 N. W. 195; Elkin v. Buschner (Pa.) 16 Atl. 104; Sapp v. State, 116 Ga. 182, 42 S. E. 411; Ring v. Ring, 112 Ga. 854, 38 S. E. 330; State v. Savage. 89 Ala. 1, 7 South. 183, 7 L. R. A. 428; Lewis v. Jones, 50 Barb. (N. Y.) 667
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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; Thomas v. Hot Springs, 34 Ark. 557, 36 Am. Rep. 24; Strain v. Chi-cngo Portrait Co. (O. C.) 128 Fed. 835
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In old European law. The commander of a drungus, or band of soldiers. Applied also to a naval command-er. Spelman
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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, 13 C. C. A. 432; Cowl v. U. S. (C. C.) 124 Fed. 475; Insurance Co. v. Flem-ming, 65 Ark. 54, 44 S. W. 464, 39 L. R. A. 789, 67 Am. St. Rep. 900; Gault v. State, 34 Ga 533
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A dealer in drugs; one whose business is to sell drugs and medl-cines. In strict usage, this term is to be distinguished from “apothecary.” A drug-gist deals in the uncompounded medicinal substances; the business of an apothecary is to mix and compound them. But in America the two words are used interchangeably, as the same persons usually discharge both functions. State v. Holmes, 28 La. Ann. 767, 26 Am. Rep. 110; Hainline v. Com., 13 Bush (Ky.) 352; State v. Donaldson, 41 Minn. 74, 42 N. W. 781
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A number of animals collected and driven together in a body; a flock or herd of cattle in 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
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To merge or sink. “In some cases a right of freehold shall drown in a chattel?* Co. Lltt. 266a, 321a
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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 nei-ther discharged nor made absolute, and the rule is said to drop. In practice, there be-ing a rlght to appeal, it has been usual to make an order in one way, the Junior judge withdrawing hls judgment wharton
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A letter addressed for dellvery in the same dty or district in which it is posted
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In Frenob law. Right, jus-tlce, equity, law, the whole body of law; al-so a right
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wbat belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are either droitural or possessory,—droitural when the plaintifT seeks to recover tbe property. Finch, Law, 257
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or DROFDENNE. A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob
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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
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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
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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., 47 N. Y. 122, 7 Am. Rep. 418
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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
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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
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In mining law. An under-ground passage driven horizontally along the course of a mineralized vein or approxl-mately so. Distinguished from “shaft,” which is an opening made at the surface and extending downward Into the earth vertically, or nearly so, npon the vein or in-tended to reach it; and from “tunnel,” which is a lateral or horizontal passage un-derground intended to reach the vein or min-eral deposit, where drifting mny begin. Jur-genson v. Diller, 114 Cal. 491, 46 Pac. 610,. 55 Am. St. Rep. 83
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This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but
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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
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The tenure by whlch the drenches, or drenges, held thelr lands
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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
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Droit-droit. Double1 right. A union of the rlght of possession: and the right of property. 2 B1. Comm. 199
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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
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