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(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...] about DUCES TECUM

See driving under the influence. … [Read more...] about DRUNK DRIVING

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...] about DRUNKARD

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

Sax. A contribution of tenants, in the time of the Saxons, towards a potation, or ale, provided to entertain the lord, or his steward. Cowell. See Csa VISARII. … [Read more...] about DRINCLEAN