droit

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

Your majesty comes with both titles, and rules, like your great progenitor, Et par droit de conquête et par droit de naissance.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

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 emoluments of the office are confined to certain insignificant admiralty droits.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits.

From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore Cooper

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 Grant Allen

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