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
In Turgot, droit du travail, and droit au travail are still confounded one with the other.
From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Wilhelm Roscher
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
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
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
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
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 Sir Edward Belcher
