The one who writes a draft, i.e., the person who writes a check from his or her account and signs it. Dred Scottv.Sandford.N. An 1857 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that no black person could be a citizen of the United States, that all slaves were the property of their owners and not citizens who could bring lawsuits themselves, and that the government could not revoke a slave owner's right to own slaves based on where he or she lived, invalidating the Missouri Compromise, which had t...