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A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889

A Dictionary of Law

1.

To take from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund: as, to draw money from a bank or a trust, to draw a dividend or share.

3.

To take names from the authorized receptacle: as, to draw a jury.

3.

To write in form, prepare; to draw up: as, to draw, or draw up, a document or writing— deed, bill in equity, will, etc.

4.

To produce, gain: as, for money to draw interest.

5.

To drag (on a hurdle) to the place of execution: as, to draw a traitor, and to be drawn.3

See Treason.

Draivback.

A remission of money paid as freight, taxes, or other charges. Compare Rebate.

See Commerce, page 201, Act of 1887, sec. 2.

A refunding of duties paid upon imported merchandise which becomes an export.* Dra'wbridge; draw. A contrivance by which a section of a bridge across a navigable water is turned upward or at right angles to itself, and parallel with the direction of the stream, so as to admit of the passage of vessels through the open space.' See Bridge. Drawee; Drawer.

See Draft, 1 (3). Drawing.

See Copyright.

See Copyright.

1 Lacy V. State, 83 Tpx. 228 (1869).

As to dram-shop keeper, see State v. Owen, 16 Mo. *607 (1852). ' « Tompkins v. Halleck, 133 Mass. 32, 45 (1882), cases; Keene v. Wheatley, 9 Am. Law Reg. 33-103 (C. C, B. D. Pa., 1860). > See 4 Bl, Com. 92, 377. * See R. S. tit.

XXXIV, Ch. 9. 0 Hughes V. Northern Pacific B. Co., 18 F. R. 114 (1888). DRATME3S". See Police, 3. Srayage.

Where, to keep a wharf in repair, a toll was charged on coal taken from the wharf in vessels or warehoused "without drayage," it was held that the reference was to loaded conveyances, and included a tramway supported by pillars resting upon the wharf.'