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DREIT

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The same as Droit. … [Read more...]

DROIT

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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...]

DOWMENT

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In old English law. Endowment; dower. Grogan v. Garrison, 27 Ohio St 61. … [Read more...]

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