Definition of "droit" []

• A legal right. (noun)
• Something to which one has legal right. (noun)

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• "And I'm sorry, American Legal System, but I believe in droit d'auteur."
• "This characterization is indubitably incisive, but it fails to take account of the fact that the expression droit divin des rois (divine right of kings) is, as Jean Mesnard has demonstrated, nowhere to be found in Bossuet's work."
• "Dozens of countries already have a version of a resale royalties law, generally referred to by the French phrase droit de suite."