The name of an ancient writ directed to the lord of ancient demesne, and which lies for those tenants in ancient demesne who hold their lands and tenements by charter in fee simple, in fee tail, for life, or in dower. F. N. B. 23. … [Read more...]

Rules that govern how one should dress, typically provided by an employer and required of an employee at the workplace. … [Read more...]

Rights claimed by the government over the property of an enemy. In England, it has been usual, in maritime wars, for the government to seize and condemn, as droits of admiralty, the property of an enemy found in her ports at the breaking out of hostilities. … [Read more...]

In mining law. An underground passage driven horizontally along the course of a mineralized vein or approximately so. Distinguished from "shaft'' which is an opening made at the surface and extending downward into the earth vertically, or nearly so, upon the vein or intended to reach it; and from "tunnel," which is a lateral or horizontal passage underground intended to reach … [Read more...]

What belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are either droitural or possessory, droitural when the plaintiff seeks to recover the property. Finch, Law, 257. … [Read more...]