A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is request* ed to pay the amount of mouey therein mentioned
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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
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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 it here, re-exports it; or the refund-ing of such duties lf already paid. This allowance amounts, in some cases, to the whole of the original duties; In others, to a part only
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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
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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 or stage dance. Daly v. Palm-er, 6 Fed. Cas. 1132; Carte v. Duff (C. C.) 25 Fed. 183; Tompkins v. Halleck, 133 Mass. 35, 43 Am. Rep. 480; Russell v. Smith, 12 Adol. & El. 236; Martlnettl v. McGuire, 16 Fed. Css. 920; Fuller v. Bemis (C. C.) 50 Fed. 926
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Any one who draws or frames a legal document, e.g., a will, con-veyance, pleading, etc
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An interpreter employed in the east, and particularly at the Turkish court
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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
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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
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A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat Townsh. Pl. 180.
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The standard, ensign, or military colors borne in war by the an-clent kings of England, having the figure of a dragon painted thereon
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L. Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. SL 18 Edw. II.; Bar-ring. ob. St. 208
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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
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A woman entitled to dower ; a tenant in dower. 2 P. wms. 707
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The property which a woman brings to her husband in marriage; now more commonly called a “portlon.”
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In old English law. En-dowment; dower. Grogan v. Garrison, 27 ohio St 61
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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
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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
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Doves are animals ferae natures, and not the subject of larceny unless they are in the owner’s custody; as, for example, in a dove-house, or wheu in the nest before they can fly. Com. v. Chace, 9 Pick. (Moss.) 15, 19 Am. Dec. 348; Ruckmon v. Outwater, 28 N. J. Law, 581
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Subject to be charged with dower; as dowable lands
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Uncertainty of mlnd; the ab-sence of a settled opinion or conviction; the attitude of mind towards the acceptance of or belief in a proposition, theory, or statement, in 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 Mo. 33, 44 S. W. 718 ; west Jersey Traction Co. v. Camden Horse R. Co., 52 N. J. Eq. 452, 29 Atl. 333
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L. Fr. A gift otherwise writ-ten “don” and “done.” The thirty-fourth chapter of Britton is entitled “De Donna.”
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Twofold; acting in two capacities or having two aspects; multiplied by two. This term has ordinarily the same meaning in law as in popular speech. The principal compound terms into which it en-ters are noted below
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