In feudal and old English law. A duchy, the dignity or territory of a duke … [Read more...]

A person is "drunk" when he is so far under the influence of liquor that his passions are visibly excited or his judgment impaired, or when his brain is so far affected by potations of liquor that his intelligence, sense-perceptions, judgment continuity of thought or of ideas, speech, and coordination of volition with muscular action (or some of these faculties or processes) … [Read more...]

(A) Latin term for bring with you and used most frequently in subpoena duces tecum which requires the production of something. (B) practice, evidence. Bring with thee. A writ commonly called a subpoena duces tecum, commanding the person to whom it is directed to bring with him some writings, papers, or other things therein specified and described, before the court. 1 Phil. Ev. … [Read more...]

See driving under the influence. … [Read more...]

He is a drunkard whose habit it is to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms "drunkard" and "habitual drunkard" mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay y. Gourlay, 16 R. I. 705, 10 Atl. 142. A "common" drunkard is defined by statute In some states as a person who has been convicted of drunkenness (or proved to have been drunk) a certain … [Read more...]