Category: D

He is a drunkard whose habit it is to get drunk; whose ebriety has become habitual. The terms “drunkard” and “habitual drunkard” mean the same thing. Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray (Mass.) 85; Gourlay y. Gourlay, 1G R. I. 705, 19 Atl. 142.A “common” drunkard is defined by statute in some states as a person who hasbeen convicted of drunkenness (or proved to have been drunk) a certain number oftimes within a limilcd period. State v. Kelly, 12 R. I. 535; State v. Flynn. 10 It. I. 10. 11Atl. 170. Elsewhere the word “common” in this connection is understood as beingequivalent to “habitual,” (State v. Savage. S9 Ala. 1, 7 South. 183. 7 I,. It. A. 420; Com.v. McXamee, 112 Mass. 280; State v. Ryan. 70 Wis. G70. 30 N. W. 823;) or perhaps assynonymous with “public,” (Com. v. Whitney, 5 Gray [Mass.] 80.)

A clause in a REINSURANCE contract that requires the REINSURER to provide coverage to an underlying INSURED if the INSURER cannot fulfill its obligations under the policy CEDED. A dropdown is most common in a FACULTATIVE REINSURANCE agreement where individual policies are analyzed and accepted.

In medical jurisprudence. The condition of a man whose mind isaffected by the immediate use of intoxicating drinks; the state of one who is “drunk.”See DRUNK.

Rights or perquisites of the admiralty. A term applied to goodsfound derelict at sea. Ap- lied also to property captured in time of war y noncommissionedvessels of a belligerent nation. 1 Kent, Comm. 96.Droit ne done plnis qne soit de- mannde. The law gives not more than is demanded. 2 Inst. 286.Droit ne poet pas morier. Right cannot die. Jenk. Cent. 100, case 95.

The right of a stockbroker to sell the securities bought by him for account of a client, if the latter doesnot accept delivery thereof. The same expression is also applied to the sale by astockbroker of securities deposited with him by his client, in order to guaranty thepayment of operations for which the latter has given instructions. Arg. Fr. Merc. Law,557.

What belongs of right; relating to right; as real actions are eitherdroitural or possessory,

A right formerly claimed by the lords of the coasts of certain partsof France, to shipwrecks, by which not only the property, but the persons of those whowere cast away, were confiscated for the prince who was lord of the coast. Otherwisecalled “droit de bris sur le naufragc.” This right prevailed chiefly in Bretagne, and wassolemnly abrogated by Henry III. as duke of Normandy, Aquitaine. and Guienne, in acharter granted A. D. 1220, preserved among the rolls at Bordeaux.

These were at first high ships of great burden, but afterwards those which we nowcall “men-of-war.” Jacob.

In French feudal law. Right of ward. The guardianship of the estate and person of a noblevassal, to which the king, during his minority, was entitled. Steph. Leet. 250.

In English practice. When the members of a court are equally divided on theargument showing cause against a rule nisi, no order Is made, i. e., the rule is neitherdischarged nor made absolute, and the rule 1s said to drop. In practice, there being aright to appeal, It has been usual to make an order in one way, the junior judgewithdrawing his judgment. Wharton.