Category: D

Maritime law.

An ancient writ, directed to the lord of ancient demesne on behalf of those of his tenants who held their lands and tenementsby charter in fee-simple, in fee-tail, for life, or in dower. Fitzh. Nat. I!rev. 23.

This phrase in French law denotes private rights, the exercise of which is independent of the status(quality) of citizen. Foreigners enjoy them; and the extent of that enjoyment isdetermined by the principle of reciprocity. Conversely, foreigners may be sued oncontracts made by them in France. Brown.

A species of easement or servitude obligating one man to permit the waterfalling from another man’s house to fall upon his own land. 3 Kent, Comm. 436.

One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle,with horses, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle, or motor car, though not a street railroad car. See Davis v. Petrinovich, 112 Ala. 654, 21 South. 344, 36 L. R. A.615; Gen. St. Conn. 1902,

This term is used to describe a person who is behind the wheel of a vehicle and is driving on public roads while under the influence of alcohol.

A grove or woody place where cattle are kept Jacob.

Sax. A quit rent, or yearly payment, formerly made by some tenants tothe king, or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets.Cowell; Blount.

A charge for the transportation of property in wheeled vehicles, such asdrays, wagons, and carts. Soule v. San Francisco Gaslight Co., 54 Cal. 242.

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.”rccht” and the English word “right.” On the one hand, these terms answer to theRoman “jus,” and thus indicate law in the abstract, considered as the foundation of allrights, or the complex of underlying moral principles which impart the character ofjustice to all positive law, or give it an ethical content. Taken in this abstract sense, theterms may be adjectives, in which case they are equivalent to “just,” or nouns, In whichcase they may be paraphrased by the expressions “justice,” “morality,” or “equity.” Onthe other hand, they serve to point out a right; that is, a power, privilege, faculty, ordemand, inherent in one person, and incident upon another. In the latter signification,droit (or recht or right) is the correlative of “duty” or “obligation.” In the former sense,It may be considered as opposed to wrong, injustice, or the absence of law. Droit hasthe further ambiguity that it is sometimes used to denote the existing body of law considered as one whole, or the sum total of a number of Individuallaws taken together. See Jus; RECIIT; RIGHT.