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Definition: DROIT

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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"Droit" is a common misspelling or typo for: adroit, droits.

Date "Droit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1500. (references)

Etymology:Droit \Droit\, noun. [French expression See Direct.]. (references)

Common Expressions: DROIT

Expressions Definition
Dieu et mon droit Dieu et mon droit (French for God and my [birth] right) has generally been used as the motto of the British monarch since it was adopted by Henry V (1413-22). Today, this motto can still be read on a passport from the United Kingdom. (references)
Droit de seigneur The jus primae noctis meaning 'law (or right) of the first night,' and droit du seigneur meaning 'the lord's right', is the purported right of the lord of an estate to deflower its virgins. (references)
Groupe Union Droit Groupe Union Droit or Groupe Union Défense, better known as GUD, is the name of a succession of violent French far-right student political groups. Regularly dissolved, it keeps surfacing under altered names. (references)
Institut de droit international The Institut de droit international (Institute of International Law) is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law. (references)
Le Droit Le Droit (established on March 27, 1913) is a Canadian daily newspaper, published in Ottawa. (references)
Le Droit Humain The position of women within Freemasonry is complex. Traditionally, only men could be made Freemasons. While this has been slowly changing, especially over the past century, there were exceptions to the rule as early as the 18th century. Perhaps the most authoritative account of a woman being admitted to Freemasonry in these early years surrounds Elizabeth Aldworth (nee St. Leger), who is reported to have viewed the proceedings of a Lodge meeting held at Doneraile House, the house of her father, first Viscount Doneraile, a resident of Cork, Ireland. In the early part of the 18th century, it was customary for Lodges to be regularly held in private houses; this Lodge was duly warranted as number 150 on the register of the Grand Lodge of Ireland. Apparently, she removed a brick and saw the ceremony in the room beyond. After being discovered, Elizabeth's situation was discussed by the Lodge, and it was decided that she should be initiated into Freemasonry. The story is supported by other accounts that record how she was a subscriber to the Irish Book of Constitutions of 1744 and that she frequently attended, wearing her Masonic regalia, entertainments that were given under Masonic auspices for the benefit of the poor and distressed. She afterwards married Mr. Richard Aldworth of Newmarket. It is also reported that when she died she was accorded the honour of a Masonic burial. (references)
Le Droit Park Le Droit Park is a neighborhood in Washington, D.C. located immediately south of Howard University. (references)
Université du Droit et de la Santé de Lille The Université du Droit et de la Santé de Lille or Université de Lille II is a French university. The main campus in situated in Ronchin, to the south of Lille. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Expressions: DROIT

Expressions Domain Definition
Auter droit Law AUTER DROIT, or more properly, Autre Droit, another's right. A man may sue Or be sued in another's right; this is the case with executors and administrators. (references)
Droit d'accession Law DROIT D'ACCESSION, French civil law. Specificatio. 1. That property which is acquired by making a new species out of the material of another. Modus acquirendi quo quis ex aliena materia suo nomine novam speciem faciens bona fide ejus speciei dominium consequitur. It is a rule of the civil law, that if the thing can be reduced to the former matter, it belongs to the owner of the matter, e.g. a statue made of gold, but if it cannot so be reduced, it belongs to the person who made it, e.g. a statue made of marble. This subject is treated of in the Code Civil de Napoleon, art. 565 to 577; Merlin Repertoire de Surisp. Accession; Malleville's Discussion, art. 565. The Code Napoleon follows. closely the Inst. of Just. lib. 2, tit. 1, ��25, 28. 2. Doddridge, in his English Lawyer, 125-6, states the common law thus: " If a man take, wrongfully, the material which was mine and is permanent, not adding anything thereunto than the form, only by alteration thereof, such thing, so newly formed by an exterior form, notwithstanding, still remaineth mine, and may be seized again by me, and I may take it out of his possession as mine own. But they say, if he add some other matter thereunto; as, of another man's leather doth make shoes or boots, or of my cloth, maketh garments, adding to the accomplishment thereof of his own, he hath thereby altered the property, so that the first owner cannot seize the thing so composed, but is driven to his action to recover his remedy: howheit, he adds, in a case of that nature depending, the court had determined that the first owner might seize the same, notwithstanding such addition. But if the thing be transitory in its nature by the change, as if one take ray corn or meal, and thereof make bread, I cannot, in that case, seize the bread, because, as the civil law speaketh, haec species facta ex materia aliens, in pristinam formam reduci non potest, ergo ei a quo est facta cedit. So some have said, if a man take my barley, and thereof make malt, because it is changed into another nature, it cannot be seized by me; but the rule is: That where the material wrongfully taken away, could not at first, before any alteration, be seized; for that it could not be distinguished. from other things of that kind, as corn, money, and such like; there those things cannot be seized because the property of those things cannot be: distinguished: for, if my money be wrongfully taken away, and he that taketh it do make plate; thereof, or do convert my plate into money, I cannot seize the same for that money is undistinguishable from other money of that coin. But, if a butcher take wrongfully my ox and doth kill it, and bring it into the market to be sold, I may not seize upon the flesh, for it: cannot be known from others of that, kind; but if it be found hanging in the skin, where the mark may appear, I may seize the same, although when it was taken from me it had life, and now is dead. So, if a man cut down my tree, and square it into a beam of timber, I may seize the same, for he bath neither altered the nature thereof, nor added anything but exterior form thereunto; but if he lay the beam of timber into the building of a house, I may not seize the same, for being so set it is become parcel of the house, and so in supposition of law, after a sort, altered in its nature. See Year Book 12 H. VIII. 9 b, 10 a; Bro. Ab. Property, 45; 5 H. VII. 15; Bro. Ab. Property, 23. (references)
Droit d'aubaine Law DROIT D'AUBAINE, jus albinatus. 1. This was a rule by which all the property of a deceased foreigner, whether movable or immovable, was confiscated to the use of the state, to the exclusion of his heirs, whether claiming ab intestato, or under a will of the deceased. The word aubain signifies hospes loci, peregrinus advena, a stranger. It is derived, according to some, from alibi, elsewhere, natus, born, from which the word albinus is said to be formed. Others, as Cujas, derive the word directly from advena, by which word, aubains, or strangers, are designated in the capitularies of Charlemagne. See Du Cange and Dictionaire de Trevoux. 2. As the darkness of the middle ages wore away, and the light of civilization appeared, thing barbarous and inhospitable usage was by degrees discontinued, and is now nearly abolished in the civilized world. It subsisted in France, however, in full force until 1791, and afterwards, in a modified form, until 1819, when it was formally abolished by law. For the gross abuses of this feudal exaction, see Dictionaire de l'Ancien Regime et des abus feodaux. Aubain. See Albinatus jus. (references)
Droit d'aubaine Literature 1: "Had I died that night of an indigestion, the whole world could not have suspended the effects of the droits d'aubaine: my shirts and black pair of breeches, portmauteau and all, must have gone to the king of France." - Sterne: Sentimental Journey (Introduction).
2: In France the king was entitled, at the death of foreign residents (except Swiss and Scots), to all their movable estates; the law was only abolished in 1819. Aubain means "alien," and droit d'aubaine the "right over an alien's property." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
In autre droit Law IN AUTRE DROIT. In another's right. An executor, administrator or trustee, is said to have the property confided to him in such character, in autre droit. (references)
Monstrans de droit Law MONSTRANS DE DROIT. Literally showing of right, in the English law, is a process by which a subject claim from the crown a restitution of a right. Bac. Ab. Prerogative, E; 3 Bl. 256; 1 And. 181; 5 Leigh's R. 512. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Extended Definition: DROIT

Droit d'auteur

Droit d'auteur is a French term meaning "authors' rights". It is also commonly translated as "copyright".

Equivalent terms in other languages are: Spanish, derecho de autor; Portuguese, direito de autor; Italian, Diritto d'autore; German, Urheberrecht; Dutch, Auteursrecht; Russian, авторском прав.

See also: Category:Copyright law by country

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Droit d'auteur (disambiguation)". Image Credit.
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Extended Definition: DROIT

Droit

'Droit' (French for right), a legal title, claim or due; a term used in English law in the phrase "droits of admiralty", certain customary rights or perquisites formerly belonging to the Lord High Admiral, but now to the crown, for public purposes and paid into the Exchequer. These droits (see also wreck) consisted of flotsam, jetsam, ligan, treasure, deodand, derelict, within the admiral's jurisdiction; all fines, forfeitures, ransoms, recognizanees and pecuniary punishments; all sturgeons, whales, porpoises, dolphins, grampuses and such large fishes; all ships and goods of the enemy coming into any creek, road or port, by durance or mistake; all ships seized at sea, salvage, etc., with the share of prizes such shares being afterwards called "tenths", in imitation of the French, who gave their admiral a droit de dixieme. The droits of admiralty were definitely surrendered for the benefit of the public by Prince George of Denmark, when Lord High Admiral of England in 1702. American law does not recognize any such droits, and the disposition of captured property is regulated by various acts of Congress.

The term droit is also used in various legal connexions (i.e., French law), such as the droit of angary, the droit d'achat (right of pre-emption) in the case of contraband, the feudal droit de bris (see wreck), the droit de regale or ancient royal privilege of claiming the revenues and patronage of a vacant bishopric, and the feudal droites of seignory generally. Droit d'auteur is a term for French copyright law.

In French, droit can mean law. It also means the direction right (as opposed to left) and rights, as in "My God and my rights", "Mon Dieu et mon droit".

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References

  • This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Topics by Level of Interest: DROIT

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Le Droit 56     Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel 3
Droit 22     Belgian Federation of Le Droit Humain 7
Le Droit Park 16     Dieu et mon droit 5
Droit de seigneur 15     Droit 22
Institut de Droit International 9     Droit d'auteur (alternative meanings) 3
Droit de suite 7     Droit de seigneur 15
Belgian Federation of Le Droit Humain 7     Droit de suite 7
Dieu et mon droit 5     Institut de Droit International 9
Le Droit Humain 5     Le Droit 56
Roger-Pol Droit 4     Le Droit Humain 5
Académie Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel 3     Le Droit Park 16
Netherlands Federation of Le Droit Humain 3     Netherlands Federation of Le Droit Humain 3
Droit d'auteur (alternative meanings) 3     Roger-Pol Droit 4

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

"droit" is a common misspelling or typo for: adroit, droits.

Synonym: droit
Position Synonym (sorted by strength)

Other

 right.
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Computed Synonyms: droit

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   4.1094   droit     straight     right, direct, directly, upright, uprightly   
 2   4.0094   droit     plumb     right, sheer, just, true, perpendicular   
 3   4.0088   droit     perpendicular     vertical, upright, plumb, normal, erect   
 4   3.1094   droit     upright     straight, honest, erect, vertical, right   
 5   3.0194   droit     directly     straight, immediately, headly, direct, instantly   
 6   2.1095   droit     right     correct, just, true, proper, straight   
 7   2.1090   droit     entitlement     title, warrant, right, law, capability   
 8   2.0195   droit     dues     fee, apts, charge, justs, corrects   
 9   2.0195   droit     duty     obligation, charge, office, job, tax   
 10   2.0094   droit     law     rule, statute, regulation, right, act   
 11   2.0094   droit     fee     charge, dues, fees, pay, tax   
 12   2.0092   droit     selector     picker, elector, choicer, opter, culler   
 13   1.1096   droit     erect     build, raise, set up, found, construct   
 14   1.1094   droit     warrant     guarantee, warranty, authorization, authority, mandate   
 15   1.1092   droit     birthright     the right, dead straight, interest, warrant, claim credit   
--------------------     16 synonyms ranked from 16 to 31 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: droit

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   4.1190   droit     dead straight     legal title, the right, claim credit   
 2   4.1084   droit     vertical alignment     plumb, vertical, perpendicular   
 3   4.0092   droit     on edge     irritable, touchy, thin-skinned   
 4   4.0087   droit     prime vertical     vertical, on edge, perpendicular   
 5   2.1081   droit     subpoint of satellite     vertical face, selector, holding bar   
 6   2.0089   droit     holding bar     vertical bar, selector, subpoint of satellite   
 7   1.2090   droit     claim credit     the right, dead straight, legal title   
 8   1.1092   droit     the just     the right, legal title, claim credit   
 9   1.1090   droit     legal right     legal asset, right, right side   
 10   1.1088   droit     staight ahead     straight, right side, upright   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: droit

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 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0087   faux pied droit     architrave     epistyle, lintel   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Synonyms within Context: droit

Context Synonyms within Context

Compulsion

Le droit du plus fort, brute force, club law, force, arguementum baculinum, lynch law, main force, martial law, mob law, physical force, the sword, ultima ratio.

Defense

Dieu defend le droit, defense not defiance, fidei defensor.

Illegality

Le droit du plus fort, club law, coup d'etat, drumhead law, argumentum, Lydford law, lynch law, martial law, mob law.

Legality

Droit des gens, administrative law, canon law, civil law, common law, criminal law, crown law, ecclesiastical law, equity, international law, jus civile, jus gentium, law of nations, lex, lex mercatoria, lex nonscripta, statute law.

Right

_ bon droit, "thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just", au bon droit, Dieu et mon droit;Dieu et mon droit;"in equal scale weighing delight and dole", in equity, in justice, in reason, justitia cuum cuique distribuit, justitia virtutem regina, justitiae soror incorrupta fides, rightly.

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Translations: DROIT

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya التحالف الوطني من أجل القانون والتنمية (Alliance Nationale pour le droit et le développement), رابطة الحق في المبادرة الاقتصادية (Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique), الصندوق الاستئماني لبرنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي المتعلق بمنظمة مواءمة قوانين الأعمال التجارية في أفريقيا (Fonds fiduciaire du PNUD concernant l'organization pour l'harmisation en Afrique du droit des affaires). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha التحالف الوطني من أجل القانون والتنمية (Alliance Nationale pour le droit et le développement), رابطة الحق في المبادرة الاقتصادية (Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique), الصندوق الاستئماني لبرنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي المتعلق بمنظمة مواءمة قوانين الأعمال التجارية في أفريقيا (Fonds fiduciaire du PNUD concernant l'organization pour l'harmisation en Afrique du droit des affaires). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic التحالف الوطني من أجل القانون والتنمية (Alliance Nationale pour le droit et le développement), رابطة الحق في المبادرة الاقتصادية (Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique), الصندوق الاستئماني لبرنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي المتعلق بمنظمة مواءمة قوانين الأعمال التجارية في أفريقيا (Fonds fiduciaire du PNUD concernant l'organization pour l'harmisation en Afrique du droit des affaires). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski законно право (droit). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration) zakonno pravo (droit). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian právní nárok (droit). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian законно право (droit). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration) zakonno pravo (droit). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina právní nárok (droit). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 权利的对象 (droit, droits), 权利 (a power, a right, right, dibs, droit), 所有权 (possession, ownership, ownerships, proprietorship, droit). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional 權利的對象 (droit, droits), 所有權 (possession, ownership, proprietary, droit, droits), 權利 (a power, a right, right, dibs, droit). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse verticale (vertical, dead straight, droit, holding bar, perpendicular), dritu (birthright, capability, charge, claim credit, dead straight). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi verticale (vertical, dead straight, droit, holding bar, perpendicular), dritu (birthright, capability, charge, claim credit, dead straight). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican verticale (vertical, dead straight, droit, holding bar, perpendicular), dritu (birthright, capability, charge, claim credit, dead straight). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso verticale (vertical, dead straight, droit, holding bar, perpendicular), dritu (birthright, capability, charge, claim credit, dead straight). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu verticale (vertical, dead straight, droit, holding bar, perpendicular), dritu (birthright, capability, charge, claim credit, dead straight). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Cree kwayaskusiw (droit, right, straight). Additional references: Cree, Canada, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech právní nárok (droit). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Dutch moreel en wettig recht (droit). Additional references: Dutch, Netherlands, Aruba, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Français vertical (vertical, upright, plumb, on edge, prime vertical). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
French vertical (vertical, upright, plumb, on edge, prime vertical). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal 법적인 권리 (droit), 영주의 초야권 (droit du seigneur), 무도한 권리 (droit du seigneur). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua 법적인 권리 (droit), 영주의 초야권 (droit du seigneur), 무도한 권리 (droit du seigneur). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew זכות הלילה הראשון (Droit de seigneur). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic التحالف الوطني من أجل القانون والتنمية (Alliance Nationale pour le droit et le développement), رابطة الحق في المبادرة الاقتصادية (Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique), الصندوق الاستئماني لبرنامج الأمم المتحدة الإنمائي المتعلق بمنظمة مواءمة قوانين الأعمال التجارية في أفريقيا (Fonds fiduciaire du PNUD concernant l'organization pour l'harmisation en Afrique du droit des affaires). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian diritto (right, straight, law, entitlement, erect), Ius primae noctis (Droit de seigneur). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit זכות הלילה הראשון (Droit de seigneur). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 初夜権 (Droit de seigneur). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean 법적인 권리 (droit), 영주의 초야권 (droit du seigneur), 무도한 권리 (droit du seigneur). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
Western Cree kwayaskusiw (droit, right, straight). Additional references: Western Cree, Canada, droit. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: DROIT

Language Translations for “droit” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag drathagoit (droit). Additional references: Athag, droit. (volunteer)
Double Dutch dragoit (droit). Additional references: Double Dutch, droit. (volunteer)
Leet |)|2()¦7 (droit). Additional references: Leet, droit. (volunteer)
Oppish dropoit (droit). Additional references: Oppish, droit. (volunteer)
Pig Latin oitdray (droit). Additional references: Pig Latin, droit. (volunteer)
Terran B vertical (droit). Additional references: Terran B, droit. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi druboit (droit). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, droit. (volunteer)
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