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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

DROIT D’EXECUTION

The right of a stockbroker to sell the securities bought by him for account of a client, if the latter doesnot accept delivery thereof. The same expression is also applied to the

DROIT DE BRIS

A right formerly claimed by the lords of the coasts of certain partsof France, to shipwrecks, by which not only the property, but the persons of those whowere cast away, were confiscated

DROIT DE GARDE

In French feudal law. Right of ward. The guardianship of the estate and person of a noblevassal, to which the king, during his minority, was entitled. Steph. Leet. 250.

DROIT DE GITE

In French feudal law. The duty incumbent on a roturicr, holding lands within theroyal domain, of supplying board and lodging to the king and to his suite while on aroyal progress. Steph.

DROIT DE GREFFE

In old French law. The right of selling various offices connected with the custody of judicial records or notarial acts. Steph.Leet. 354. A privilege of the French kings.

DROIT DE MAITRISE

In old French law. A charge payable to the crown by any one who, after having served his apprenticeship inany commercial guild or brotherhood, sought to become a master workman in it

DROIT DE QNINT

In French feudal law. A relief payable by a noble vassal to the king as his seigneur, on every change in the ownership of his fief. Steph. Leet. 350.

DROIT DE SUITE

The right of a creditor to pursue the debtor’s property into the hands of third persons for the enforcement of his claim.

DROITS CIVILS

This phrase in French law denotes private rights, the exercise of which is independent of the status(quality) of citizen. Foreigners enjoy them; and the extent of that enjoyment isdetermined by the principle

DROIT ECRIT

In French law. (The written law.) The Roman civil law, or Corpus Juris Civilis. Steph. Leet. 130.

DROIT- CLOSE

An ancient writ, directed to the lord of ancient demesne on behalf of those of his tenants who held their lands and tenementsby charter in fee-simple, in fee-tail, for life, or in

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