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lowance made to a merchant or Importer, In the case of goods sold by weight or tax able by weight, to cover possible loss of weight in handling or from differences in scales. Marriott v. Brune, 9 How. 633, 13 L. Ed. 282; Seeberger v. Mfg. Co., 157 U. S. 183, 15 Sup. Ct. 583, 39 L. Ed. 665; Na pier v. Barney, 17 Fed. Cas. 1149. Any one who draws or frames a legal document, e. g., a will, con veyance, pleading, etc. DRAGOMAN. An interpreter employed In the east, and particularly at the Turkish court. DRAIN, v. To make dry; to draw off water; to rid land of its superfluous mois ture by adapting or improving natural wa tercourses and supplementing them, when necessary, by artificial ditches. People v. Parks, 58 Cal. 639. DRAIN, n. A trench or ditch to convey water from wet land; a channel through which water may flow off. The word has no technical legal meaning. Any hollow space in the ground, natural or ar tificial, where water is collected and passes off, is a ditch or drain. Goldthwait v. East Bridge water, 5 Gray (Mass) 61. The word "drain" also sometimes denotes the easement or servitude (acquired by grant or prescription) which consists in the right to drain water through another's land. See 3- Kent, Comm. 436. DRAM. In common parlance, this term means a drink of some substance containing alcohol, something which can produce in toxication. Lacy v. State, 32 Tex. 228. —Dram-shop. A drinking saloon, where liq uors are sold to be drunk on the premises. Wright v. People, 101 111. 129; Brockway v. State, 36 Ark. 636; Com. y. Marzynski, 149 Mass. 68, 21 N. E. 228. DRAMATIC COMPOSITION. In copy right law. A literary work setting forth a storv, incident, or scene from life, in which, however, the narrative is not related, but is represented by a dialogue and action; may include a descriptive poem set to music, or a pantomine, but not a composition for mu sical instruments alone, nor a mere spectacu lar exhibition or stage dance. Daly v. Palm ej, 6 Fed. Cas. 1132; Carte v. Duff (C. O.) 25 Fed. 183; Tompkins v. Halleck, 133 Mass. 35, 43 Am. Rep. 480; Russell v. Smith, 12 Adol. & El. 236; Martinetti v. McGuire, 16 Fed. Cas. 920; Fuller v. Bemis (C. C.) 50 Fed. 926. DRAW, n. 1. A movable section of a bridge, which may be raised up or turned to one side, so as to admit the passage of vessels. Gildersleeve v. Railroad Co. (D. C.) 82 Fed. 766; Hughes v. Railroad Co. DRAFTSMAN.

with which It has sometimes been con founded. By dowry, in the Louisiana Civil ~Code, is meant the effects which the wife brings to the husband to support the expenses of marriage. It is givea to the husband, to be enjoyed by him BO long as the marriage shall last, and the in come of it belongs to him. He alone has the Administration of it during marriage, and his wife cannot deprive him of it. The real estate settled as dowry is inalienable during marriage, unless the marriage contract contains a stipula tion to the contrary. De Young v. De Young, 6 La. Ann. 786. L. Fr. Twelve; a person twelve years of age. St. 18 Edw. II.; Bar ring. Ob. St. 208. DOZEN PEEKS. Twelve peers assem bled at the instance of the barons, in the reign of Henry III., to be privy counselors, or rather conservators of the kingdom. DR. An abbreviation for "doctor;" al so, in commercial usage, for "debtor," in dicating the items or particulars in a bill or in an account-book chargeable against the person to whom the bill is rendered or In whose name the account stands, as op posed to "Cr." ("credit" or "creditor"), which indicates the items for which he is given credit. Jaqua v. Shewalter, 10 Ind. App. 234, 37 N. E. 1072. DRACHMA. A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat. Townsh. PI. 180. An Athenian silver coin, of the value of about fifteen cents. DRACO REGIS. The standard, ensign, or military colors borne in war by the an cient kings of England, having the figure of a dragon painted thereon. DRACONIAN LAWS. A code of laws prepared by Draco, the celebrated lawgiver of Athens. These laws were exceedingly severe, and the term is now sometimes ap plied to any laws of unusual harshness. DRAFT. The common term for a bill of exchange; as being drawn by one person on another. Hinnemann v. Rosenback, 39 N. Y. 100; Douglass v. Wilkeson, 6 Wend. (N. Y.) 643. An order for the payment of money drawn by one person on another. It is said to be a nomen generalissimum, and to include all such orders. Wildes v. Savage, 1 Story, 30, 29 Fed. Cas. 1226; State v. Warner, 60 Kan. 94, 55 Pac. 342. Draft also signifies a tentative, provision al, or preparatory writing out of any docu ment (as a will, contract, lease, etc.) for purposes of discussion and correction, and which is afterwards to be copied out in its final shape Also a small arbitrary deduction or al DOZEIN.