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droit

[droit, drwa] / drɔɪt, drwa /


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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

The right of subsistence was admitted by the establishment of the ateliers nationaux, and asserted by the insurgents of June, 1848, under the nobler and more dignified guise of the droit au travail.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 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

If he was a serf, his goods inured to his master; but from all personal property was deducted the cost of burning its owner and the droits de justice of the seigneur-justicier.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles

The project he submitted to the Assembly, as well as the three "Déclarations des droits de l'homme", consequently followed on this point the Virginia Bill of Rights rather than the Declaration of Independence.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

It is one of the reasons that the central moral rights in the French droits d'auteur, or author's rights, tradition resonate so strongly with us.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

"L'esprit ne perd jamais ses droits en France;" so, in another moment or two, the bugle sounded lustily throughout the quarter.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.




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