Droit
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
a French word: which in that language signifies the whole collection of laws, written and unwritten, and is synonymous to our word law. With us it means right, jus.
Co. Litt. 158.
A person was said to have drott drott, plurimum uris, and plurimum tones, when he had a freehold, the fee, and the property in him.
Ib. 266; Crabb’s H. Eng. L. 400.