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
Representative Jerrold Nadler, Democrat of New York, championed unsuccessful bills for federal droit de suite laws in 2011, 2014 and 2015.
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
The right of subsistence was admitted by the establishment of the ateliers nationaux, and asserted by the insurgents of June, 1848, under the nobler and more dignified guise of the droit au travail.
From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 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 droits of admiralty were definitely surrendered for the benefit of the public by Prince George of Denmark, when lord high admiral of England in 1702.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
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
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
The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits.
From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper
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