Draw

To drag, on a hurdle, to the place of execution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, but the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A part of the ancient punishment of traitors was the being thus drawn. 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 92, 377.

To drag (on a hurdle) to the place of execution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, bivt the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A part of the ancient punishment of traitors was to be thus drawn. 4 Bla. Com. 92, 377.

v. In old criminal practice. To drag (on a hurdle) to the place of execution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, but the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A part of the ancient punishment of traitors was the being thus drawn. 4 Bl. Comm. 92, 377. In mercantile law. To draw a bill of exchange is to write (or cause it to be written) and sign it In pleading, conveyancing, etc. To prepare a draft; to compose and write out in due form, as, a deed, complaint, petition, memorial, etc. Winnebago Co.unty State Bank v. Hustel, 119 Iowa, 115, 93 N. W. 70; Hawkins v. State, 28 Fla. 363, 9 South. 652. In practice. To draw a jury is to select the persons who are to compose it, either by taking their names successively, but at hazard, from the jury box, or by summoning them individually to attend the court. Smith v. Sinte, 136 Ain. 1, 34 South. 168. In fiscal law and administration. To take out money from a bank, treasury, or other depository in the exercise of a lawful right and in a lawful manner. "No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law." Const. In S. art. 1, § 9. But to "draw a warrant" is not to draw the money; it is to make or execute the instrument which authorizes the drawing of the money. Brown v. Fleischner, 4 Or. 149.

To write in form, as a deed, or will; to take from a place of deposit, as money from a bank; to select by lot, as to draw the names of jurors.

In English law. To drag on a hurdle to the place of execution.

In old criminal practice. To drag (on a hurdle) to the place of exeeution. Anciently no hurdle was allowed, bul the criminal was actually dragged along the road to the place of execution. A partof the ancient punishment of traitors was the being thus drawn, 4 Bl. Comm. 92, 877.

In mercantile law. To draw a bill of exchange is to write (or cause it to be written) and sign it,

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. 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.'