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droit

[droit, drwa] / drɔɪt, drwa /


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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

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

In 1822 appeared his Questions de droit administratif, in which he for the first time brought together and gave scientific shape to the scattered elements of administrative law.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" 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

It remains to consider the other aspect of human rights, the droits de l'homme apart from the droits du citoyen.

From Selected Essays by H. J. Stenning

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

Thus re-granted, the seigneur could not eject the habitant, but was allowed to receive a nominal or feudal rent from the vassal, and the usual droits.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Richard Henry Bonnycastle

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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