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DRAWEE

A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein mentioned.

DRAWER

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.

DRAWING

In patent law. A representation of the appearance of material objects by means of lines and marks upon paper, cardboard, or other substance. Ampt v.Cincinnati, 8 Ohio Dec. 62S.

DRAYAGE

A charge for the transportation of property in wheeled vehicles, such asdrays, wagons, and carts. Soule v. San Francisco Gaslight Co., 54 Cal. 242.

DREIT-DREIT

Droit-droit. Double right. A union of the right of possession and the right of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 199.

DRENGAGE

The tenure by which the drenches, or drenges, held their lands.

DRIFT

In mining law. An underground passage driven horizontally along the courseof a mineralized vein or approximately so. Distinguished from “shaft,” which is anopening made at the surface and extending downward into the

DRIFTLAND, DROFLAND, OR DRYFLAND

A Saxon word, signifying a tribute or yearly payment made by some tenants to the king,or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

DRIFTS OF THE FOREST

A view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc..that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the beasts are. andwhether they are commonable.

DRIFTWAY

A road or way over which cattle are driven. 1 Taunt. 279. Smith v. Ladd, 41 Me. 314.

DRIFT-STUFF

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. If cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but

DRINCLEAN

Sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards apotation, or ale, provided to entertain the lord, or his steward. Cowell. See CEB- VISARII.

DRINKING-SHOP

A place where intoxicating liquors are sold, bartered, or deliveredto be drunk on the premises. Portland v. Schmidt, 13 Or. 17, 6 Pac. 221.

DRIVER

One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle,with horses, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or motor car, though not a street railroad car. See Davis v.

DROFLAND

Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants tothe king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.Cowell; Blount.

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.”rccht” and the English word “right.”

DROIT D’ACCESSION

That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. It is equivalent to the Roman “spccificatio.”

DROIT D’ANBAINE

A rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, wasconfiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming abtntcs- tato

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