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
In France, a study of droit de suite demonstrated that around 70 percent of royalty payments went to famous artists like Picasso.
From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2018
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
And once, on the darkest day of all, it was the brave old family motto, on a letter which came by post: "Dieu défend le droit."
From Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael
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 James Fenimore Cooper
In the territories of the great vassals the right to the confiscations for heresy became recognized as an important portion of the droits seigneurioux.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
In 1778 it was decided that all the ships taken from France by vessels having letters of marque only against the Americans, became droits of admiralty.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
The project he submitted to the Assembly, as well as the three "Déclarations des droits de l'homme", consequently followed on this point the Virginia Bill of Rights rather than the Declaration of Independence.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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