This term is used to describe a person who is behind the wheel of a vehicle and is driving on public roads while under the influence of alcohol .
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DROFDEN, or DROFDENNE
A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob.
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 […]
DROIT COMMON
The common law. Litt.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
DROIT DE PRISE
In French feudal law. The duty (incumbent on a roturicr) of supplying to the king on credit, during a certain period,such articles of domestic consumption as might be required for […]
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.
DROIT DROIT
A double right; that is. the right of possession and the right ofproperty. These two rights were, by the theory of our ancient law, distinct; and theabove phrase was used […]
DROIT ECRIT
In French law . (The written law .) The Roman civil law, or Corpus Juris Civilis . Steph. Leet. 130.
DROIT INTERNATIONAL
International law .
DROIT MARITIME
Maritime law .
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, […]
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 […]
DROITS OF ADMIRALTY
Rights or perquisites of the admiralty. A term applied to goodsfound derelict at sea. Ap- lied also to property captured in time of war y noncommissionedvessels of a belligerent nation. […]
DROITURAL
What belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are eitherdroitural or possessory,
DROMONES, DROMOS, DROMUNDA
These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we nowcall “men-of-war.” Jacob.