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...]
DREIT-DREIT
Droit-droit Double right. A union of the right of possession and the right of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 199. … [Read more...]