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
The earliest days of the reign of Charles X. saw M. Ledru Rollin an étudiant en droit in Paris.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 by Various
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 continental war. the naval warfare, events in Rome, Spain and Germany, the absolute cessation of trade, the conscription, the droits unis... are all so many motives of corruption of the public mind.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by John Durand
It is this "original expression" that modern copyright and the modern droits d'auteur actually cover.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
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
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
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