Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

DRAM-SHOP

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DRIVER

-alcohol, something which can produce intox ication. 32 Tex. 228. DRAM-SHOP. A drinking saloon, where liquors are sold to be drunk on the premises. DRAMATIC COMPOSITION. A mere -exhibition, spectacle, or scene is not a "dra matic composition," within the meaning of the copyright laws. 1 Abb. (U. S.) 356. DRAW. In old criminal practice. TTo drag (on a hurdle) to the place of exe cution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, "but the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A part of "the ancient punishment of traitors was the being thus drawn. 4 Bl. Comm. 92, 377. In mercantile law. To draw a bill of ex change is to write (or cause it to be written) and sign it. DRAWBACK. In the customs laws, this term denotes an allowance made by the gov ernment upon the duties due on imported merchandise when the importer, instead of -selling it here, re-exports it; or the refunding of such duties if already paid. This allow ance amounts, in some cases, to the whole of the original duties; in others, to a part only. A drawback is a device resorted to for enabling a commodity affected by taxes to be exported and •sold in the foreign market on the same terms as if it had not been taxed at all. It differs in this from a bounty, that the latter enables a commodity to be -sold for less than its natural cost, whereas a draw back enables it to be sold exactly at its natural cost DRAWEE. A person to whom a bill of -exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein men tioned. DRAWER. The person making a bill of -exchange and addressing it to the drawee. DRAWING. In patent law. A repre sentation of the appearance of material ob jects by means of lines and marks upon paper, •card-board, or other substance. DRAWING TO EXECUTION. In English criminal law. The act of drawing a 'Condemned criminal on a hurdle trom the place of prison to the place of execution. 4 Bl. Comm. 377. Where a man was hanged on an appeal of death, the wife of the person killed and all his kindred drew the felon to execution. DBAWLATCHES. Thieves; robbers. -CowelL

DREIT-DREIT. Droit-droit. Double right. A union of the right of possession and the right of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 199. DRENCHES, or DRENGES. In Saxon law. Tenants incapite. They are said to be such as, at the coming of William the Con queror, being put out of their estates, were afterwards restored to them, on their making it appear that they were the true owners thereof, and neither in auxilio or consilio against him. Spelman. DRENGAGE. The tenure by which the drenches, or drenges, held their lands. DRIFT. In old English law. A driving, especially of cattle. 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 will, as a matter of course, accrue to the riparian proprietor. 13 R. I. 641. 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, and whether they are commonable. These drifts are made at certain times in the year by the officers of the forest, when all cattle are driven into some pound or place inclosed, for the before-mentioned purposes, and also to discover whether any cattle of strangers be there, which ought not to com mon. Manwood, p. 2, c. 15. DRIFTWAY. A road or way over which cattle are driven. 1 Taunt. 279. DRINCLEAN. Sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, to wards a potation, or ale, provided to enter tain the lord, or his steward. Cowell. See CEKVISABII. DRIP. A species of easement or servi tude obligating one man to permit the water falling from another man's house to fall upon his own land. 3 Kent, Comm. 436. DRIVER. One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with horses, mules, or other animals.

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