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droit
[ droit; French drwa ]
noun
, plural droits [droits, d, r, w, a].
- a legal right or claim.
- droits, Finance, Rare. customs duties.
droit
/ drwa; drɔɪt /
noun
- a legal or moral right or claim; due
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of droit1
C15: from French: legal right, from Medieval Latin dīrēctum law, from Latin: a straight line; see direct
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Example Sentences
In a lawsuit, documented here, Rogers is charged with exercising what might be called droit du seigneur.
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Notre sang nous sera ung secong baptme, par quoy sans aucun empeschement, nous irons avec les autres martyrs droit en paradis.
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Revue catholique des institutions et du droit, August, 1886.
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Durand de Maillane, Dictionnaire de droit canonique, 1770, vol.
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A certain Marquis de Vibraye threw into prison a peasant who refused to pay the droit de cens.
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See Nys, "Les origines du droit international," pp. 381 and 382.
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