Droit [fr.], right, justice, equity. The many writs of droit or right used in our law were all abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27, except a writ of dower, or writ of dower unde nihil habet, which were in their turn abolished by the (English) C.L.P. Act, 1860, s. 26.
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