{"id":360477,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/draft.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"draft","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/draft.html","title":{"rendered":"Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">n<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p><b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a preliminary version of something (as a law) <br \/>  <b>2 a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> a system for or act of selecting individuals from a group (as for military service) <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> the act or process of selecting an individual (as for political candidacy) without his or her expressed consent <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> an order for the payment of money drawn by one person or bank on another see also <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/drawee.html\">drawee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/drawer.html\">drawer<\/a> compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/check.html\">check<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><b>documentary draft<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a draft that will be honored only upon the presentation of certain documents (as an invoice or certificate of title) <\/p>\n<p><b>sight draft<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a draft payable on presentation <\/p>\n<p><b>time draft<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> a draft payable a specified number of days after the date of the draft or of its presentation <br \/> vt  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to select for some purpose <br \/>  <i>;specif<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to conscript for military service <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to compose or prepare esp. the preliminary version of &#91;<i>ing<\/i> legislation&#93; <br \/>  <i>vi<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to practice draftsmanship <br \/>  <b><i>  draft&#183;er   <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Draft&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-360477","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/360477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=360477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}