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A person is “drunk” wben be is so far under the Influence of liquor that hls passions are visibly excited or his […]

A term applied to commercial agents who travel for wholesale mer-chants and supply the retail trade with goods, or take orders for […]

In old European law. The commander of a drungus, or band of soldiers. Applied also to a naval command-er. Spelman Source: Black’s […]

The general name of substances used in medicine; any substance, vegetable, animal, or mineral, used in the composition or preparation of medicines. […]

A dealer in drugs; one whose business is to sell drugs and medl-cines. In strict usage, this term is to be distinguished […]

A number of animals collected and driven together in a body; a flock or herd of cattle in process of heing driven; […]

To merge or sink. “In some cases a right of freehold shall drown in a chattel?* Co. Lltt. 266a, 321a Source: Black’s […]

In English practice, when the members of a court are equally divided on the argument showing cause against a rule nisi, no […]

A letter addressed for dellvery in the same dty or district in which it is posted Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed […]

In Frenob law. Right, jus-tlce, equity, law, the whole body of law; al-so a right Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

wbat belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are either droitural or possessory,—droitural when the plaintifT seeks to recover tbe […]

or DROFDENNE. A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants to the king, or their landlords, for driving thelr cattle […]

A Bpecies of easement or servitude obligating one man to permit the wa-ter falling from another man’s house to fall upon his […]

one employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with hones, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or […]

Sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards a potation, or ale, provided to entertain the lord, or […]

A place where Intoxicating liquors are sold, bartered, or de-livered to be drunk on the premlses. Port-land v. Schmidt, 13 or. 17, […]

In mining law. An under-ground passage driven horizontally along the course of a mineralized vein or approxl-mately so. Distinguished from “shaft,” which […]

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

S, or DRENGES. In Saxon, law. Tenants in capite. They are said to; be such as, at the coming of william the […]

The tenure by whlch the drenches, or drenges, held thelr lands Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)

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

Droit-droit. Double1 right. A union of the rlght of possession: and the right of property. 2 B1. Comm. 199 Source: Black’s Law […]

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 […]

Thieves; robbers. Cowell Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)