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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.