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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...] about DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED

A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob. … [Read more...] about DROFDEN, OR DROFDENNE.

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...] about DROFLAND

The same as Droit. … [Read more...] about DREIT

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