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The right of drip is an easement by which the water which falls on one house is allowed to fall upon the land of another. 2. Unless the owner has acquired the right by grant or prescription, he has no right so to construct his house as to let the water drip over his neighbor's land. … [Read more...] about DRIP

A number of animals collected and driven together in a body; a flock or herd of cattle In process of being driven; indefinite as to number, but including at least several. Caldwell v. State, 2 Tex. App. 54; McConvill Jersey City, 39 N. J. Law, 43. Drove-road. In Scotch law. A road for driving cattle. 7 Bell. App. Cas. 43, 53, 57. A drift-road. Lord Brougham, Id. Drove-stance. … [Read more...] about DROVE

The standard, ensign, or military colors borne in war by the ancient kings of England, having the figure of a dragon painted thereon. … [Read more...] about DRACO REGIS

contracts. The party who makes a bill of exchange. 2. The obligations of the drawer to the drawee and every subsequent holder lawfully entitled to the possession, are, that the person on whom he draws is capable of binding himself by his acceptance that he is to be found at the place where he is described to reside, if a description be given in the bill; that if the bill be … [Read more...] about DRAWER

A code of laws prepared by Draco, the celebrated lawgiver of Athens. These laws were exceedingly severe, and the term is now sometimes applied to any laws of unusual harshness. … [Read more...] about DRACONIAN LAWS