droit
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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
So I could not have been more thrilled when #MeToo ripped away the curtain on the murky transgressions and diminishments that women had endured in the droit du seigneur era.
From New York Times ● May 2, 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
Henry “the goodliest prince that ever reigned over the realm of England,” is described as “honnête, hault et droit, in manner gentle and gracious, rather fat, with a red beard, large enough, and very becoming.”
From Henry VIII and His Court 6th edition by Herbert Tree
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
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
Sea products thrown on the beach, whence they become 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
His bold denial of the sovereign's right to the droits of the Admiralty, in 1812, will not soon be forgotten.
From The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 17, No. 496, June 27, 1831 by Various
I should mention that Lord Grey seemed pleased by the abandonment of the droits.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
