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
I hear of nothing but ministerial intrigue, the tactics of the centre droit and the opposition, with a little very tiresome gossip of the Tuileries; and Favancourt thinks himself political, when he is only prosy.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
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
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
I should mention that Lord Grey seemed pleased by the abandonment of the droits.
From A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II by Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough
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