droit
Americannoun
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droits
plural
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a legal right or claim.
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Finance, Rare. droits, customs duties.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of droit
1470–80; < French < Late Latin dīrēctum legal right, law (noun use of neuter of Latin dīrēctus direct )
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In fact, strictly speaking, the droit du sol is not an automatic right in France, as it is for example in the US where a birth certificate is enough to get a passport.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
“It’s about what the French call droit moral,” he says in a recent interview from his home in Los Angeles.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020
But the fact is that resale royalties, called droit de suite, are now standard in much of the world, causing the U.S.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2014
The alarms managed to stall the implementation of droit de suite in the U.K. until 2006.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2014
Hence the droit de cadenas, the right of the padlock, an honor which ceased to exist in the reign of Louis XIV.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac
The vigilante movement, known as Bwa Kale, formed in late April, according to the Centre d’analyse et de recherche en droits de l’homme, or CARDH.
From Washington Times ● May 29, 2023
It remains to consider the other aspect of human rights, the droits de l'homme apart from the droits du citoyen.
From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning
His bold denial of the sovereign's right to the droits of the Admiralty, in 1812, will not soon be forgotten.
From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 by Various
It is customary enough in Paris for dramatic authors, in order at once to get paid for their labours, to barter their droits d'auteur for the entire profits of the first representations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
The appointment was the King’s, with whom Herries had ingratiated himself by transacting some of his pecuniary business, and getting odds and ends for him out of droits, &c.
From The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I by Henry Reeve
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