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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...] about DROIT

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

(Droit D'Accession) French civil law. Specificatio. That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus acquirendi quo quis ex aliena materia suo nomine novam speciem faciens bona fide ejus speciei dominium consequitur. It is a rule of the civil law, that if the thing can be reduced to the former matter, it belongs to the owner of the … [Read more...] about DROIT DACCESSION

In Saxon law. Tenants in capite. They are said toi be such as, at the coming of William the Conqueror, being put out of their estates, were afterwards restored to them, on their, making it appear that they were the true owners thereof, and neither in auxilio on consilio against him. Spelman. … [Read more...] about DRENCHES, OR DRENGES

(Droit D'Aubaine) jus albinatus. This was a rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, was confiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming ab intestato, or under a will of the deceased. The word aubain signifies hospes loci, peregrinus advena, a stranger. It is derived, according to some, from … [Read more...] about DROIT DAUBAINE