driver

One employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle with horses, mules, or other animals. The law requires that a driver should possess reasonable skill and be of good habits; it, therefore, he is not acquainted with the road he undertakes to drive; 3 Bing. 314, 321; drives with reins so loose that he cannot govern his horse; 2 Esp. 533; does not give notice of any serious danger on the road; 1 Campb. 67; takes the wrong side of the road; 4 Esp. 273; incautiously comes in collision with another carriage; 1 Stark. 423; 1 Campb. 167; or does not exercise a sound and reasonable discretion in travelling on the road to avoid dangers and difficulties, and any accident happens by which any passenger is injured, both the driver and his employers will be responsible; Barnes v. Hurd, 11 Mass. 57; 6 Te-rm 659; 1 East 106; 4 B. & Aid. 590; Maury v. Talmadge, 2 Mc- Lean, 157, Fed. Cas. No. 9,315. It has been held that the conductor of a street railway is not a driver; Isaacs v. R. Co., 47 N. Y. 122, 7 Am. Rep. 418; and one who drove a wagon loaded with calves and drawn by horses was held not to be "driving rnent made by some to their landlords for driving their cattle through the manor to fairs and markets. Cowed. DROIT (Fr.). In French Law. Law. The whole body of law, written and unwritten. A right No law exists without a duty. Toullier, n. 96; Pothler, Droit. In English Law. Right Co. Litt 158. A person was said to have droit droit, plurimum juris, ami p Uirimum posset when he had the freehold, the fee, and the property in him. Crabb, Hist. B. L 106. Recht, Droit, Diritto.- These terms are all closely connected with each other and with the English right. The French and Italian words are derivatives of the Latin directUS and rectus, these being cognate with recht and right; 15 L. Q. R. 369.

One employed in conducting

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