droit
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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
To this class of crimes de droit commun belong most of the offences included in extradition treaties.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" 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
Droitwich, for example, was originally such a wich, where the droits or dues on salt were paid at the time when William the Conqueror's commissioners drew up their great survey for Domesday Book.
From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Allen, Grant
They were at once presented with; the stamp- duty, registration, the lottery, the droits reunis, the tax on cards, and the 'octroi'.
From Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 11 by Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de
Whales, porpoises, sturgeons, &c., which, when driven on shore, 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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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 Reeve, Henry
