droit
Americannoun
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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 )
Example Sentences
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He says that once the droit du sol has been abolished on the island, the lure will disappear.
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
Le pape de romme, The pope of rome, Qui demeure a auignon; Which duelleth at auynyon; 20 Qui par droit deuroit estre That by right shold be A grand romme.
From Dialogues in French and English by Bradley, Henry
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
The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore
I should mention that Lord Grey seemed pleased by the abandonment of the droits.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
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 Stenning, H. J.
Even in France, the home of the strongest form of the droits d'auteur and of the "moral rights" tradition, the answer to this question was in the negative.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James
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