Intoxication with strong liquor. 2. This is an offence generally punished by local regulations, more or less severely. 3. Although drunkenness reduces a man to a temporary insanity, it does not excuse him or palliate his offence, when he commits a crime during a fit of intoxication, and which is the immediate result of it. When the act is a remote consequence, superinduced by … [Read more...] about DRUNKENNESS
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DRY
In the vernacular, this term means desiccated or free from moisture; but, in legal use, it signifies formal or nominal, without imposing any duty or responsibility, or unfruitful, without bringing any profit or advantage. Dry exchange. See Exchange. Dry mortgage. One which creates a lien on land for the payment of money, but does not impose any personal liability upon the … [Read more...] about DRY
DRY EXCHANGE
contracts. A term invented for disguising and covering usury; in which something, was pretended to pass on both sides, when in truth nothing passed on one side, whence it was called dry. Stat. 3 Hen. VII. c. 5 Wolff, Ins. Nat. Section 657. … [Read more...] about DRY EXCHANGE
DRY RENT
contracts. Rent-seek, was a rent reserved without a clause of distress. … [Read more...] about DRY RENT
DRIVER
One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with horses, mules, or other animals. 2. Frequent accidents occur in consequence of the neglect or want of skill of drivers of public stage coaches, for which the employers are responsible. 3. The law requires that a driver should possess reasonable skill and be of good habits for the journey; if, therefore, … [Read more...] about DRIVER