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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

The earliest days of the reign of Charles X. saw M. Ledru Rollin an étudiant en droit in Paris.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 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 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 Durand, John

I should mention that Lord Grey seemed pleased by the abandonment of the droits.

From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of

The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits.

From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore

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 Boyle, James




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