Category: D

Droit-droit. Double right. A union of the right of possession and the right of property. 2 Bl. Comm. 199.

The common law. Litt.

In Saxon law. Tenants in capite. They are said to be suchas, at the coming of William the Conqueror, being put out of their estates, wereafterwards restored to them, on their making it appear that they were the true ownersthereof, and neither in auxilio or consilio against him. Spelman.

That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. It is equivalent to the Roman “spccificatio.”

The tenure by which the drenches, or drenges, held their lands.

A rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, wasconfiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming abtntcs- tato or under a will of the deceased. Finally abolished in 1819. Opel v. Shoup.100 Iowa, 407. 69 N. W. 560, 37 L. R. A. 5S3.

In mining law. An underground passage driven horizontally along the courseof a mineralized vein or approximately so. Distinguished from “shaft,” which is anopening made at the surface and extending downward into the earth vertically, ornearly so, upon the vein or intended to reach it; and from “tunnel,” which Is a lateral orhorizontal passage underground intended to reach the vein or mineral deposit, wheredrifting may begin. .Tur- genson v. Diller, 114 Cal. 491, 46 Pac. 610, 55 Am. St. Rep.83. In old English law. A driving, especially of cattle.

This term signifies, not goods which are the subject of salvage, but matters floating at random, without any known or discoverable ownership, which. If cast ashore, will probably never be reclaimed, but will, as a matter of course, accrue tothe riparian proprietor. Watson v. Knowles, 13 R. I. 641.

A Saxon word, signifying a tribute or yearly payment made by some tenants to the king,or their landlords, for driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

A view or examination of what cattle are in a forest, chase, etc..that it may be known whether it be surcharged or not; and whose the beasts are. andwhether they are commonable. These drifts are made at certain times in the year bythe officers of the forest, when all cattle are driven into some pound or place inclosed,for the before-menlioned purposes, and also to discover whether any cattle of strangersbe there, which ought not to common. Manwood. p. 2. c. 15.