Commonly known as DWI; driving while impaired due to the effects of alcohol. Drunk driving offense charged in some states, also see DUI or driving under the influence. … [Read more...]
DROFDEN, OR DROFDENNE.
A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob. … [Read more...]
DROFLAND
Sax. A quit rent or yearly payment formerly made by some tenants to the king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell; Blount. … [Read more...]
DREIT
The same as Droit. … [Read more...]
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, "recht" and the English word "right" On the one hand, these terms answer to the Roman "jus" and thus indicate law in the abstract, considered as the foundation of all rights, or the complex of underlying moral … [Read more...]