A term employed in old pleadings and records, to denote a groat Townsh. PL 180. An Athenian silver coin, of the value of about fifteen cents. … [Read more...]

A person to whom a bill of exchange is addressed, and who is requested to pay the amount of money therein mentioned. 2. The drawee may be only one person, or there may be several persons. The drawee may be a third person, or a man may draw a bill on himself. 3. The drawee should accept or refuse to accept the bill at furthest within twenty-four hours after presentment. but it … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]