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 )
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
The state law stemmed from droit de suite, the French concept of offering artists compensation for future sales.
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
Bien droit he has it—tenez, mon capitaine—here, over the left eye!...
From The Flaming Jewel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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
Even in the droits d'auteur countries, which have a markedly different copyright law regime, it largely holds for their patent and trademark law systems, and utilitarian strands suffuse even "the sacred rights of authors."
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
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
But when one looks at the history of the French droits d'auteur tradition, it is striking how well those words describe that system as well.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
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