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droit

 (droit, drwä)
n.
1. A legal right.
2. Something to which one has legal right.

[Middle English, a fee allowed by law, from Old French, right, from Late Latin dīrēctum, from neuter of Latin dīrēctus, straight; see direct.]
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droit

(drɔɪt; French drwa)
n, pl droits (drɔɪts; French drwa)
(Law) a legal or moral right or claim; due
[C15: from French: legal right, from Medieval Latin dīrēctum law, from Latin: a straight line; see direct]
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droit

(drɔɪt; Fr. drwa)

n., pl. droits (droits; Fr. dr wa).
a legal right or claim.
[1470–80; < French < Late Latin dīrēctum legal right, law]
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droit

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Law. A privilege granted a person, as by virtue of birth:
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The two extremes were regular cotes gauches and cotes droits. In other words, all at the right end of the piece became devoted Bourbonists, devoutly believing that princes, who were daily mentioned with so much reverence and respect, could be nothing else but perfect; while the opposite extreme were disposed to think that nothing good could come of Nazareth.
= this paragraph refers to controversies, before the French "July Revolution" of 1830, between rightist ("cote droit" = right side) legitimists, who read the official "Moniteur" newspaper and supported the absolutist Bourbon monarchy of King Charles X, and leftist ("cote gauche" = left side) liberals, who read "Le Temps" and argued for reform or revolution; "nothing good could come of Nazareth" = from the Bible, John, I, 46: "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth"}
This wish of mine was treated as groveling, and even worse than republican, by the cote droit of our piece, while the cote gauche sneered at it as manifesting a sneaking regard for station without the spirit to avow it.
Certains droits et privileges de la noblesse me paraissent etre des moyens de soutenir ce sentiment."*
This is how it runs: `A le moult puissant et moult honorable chevalier, Sir Nigel Loring de Christchurch, de son tres fidele ami Sir Claude Latour, capitaine de la Compagnie blanche, chatelain de Biscar, grand seigneur de Montchateau, vavaseur de le renomme Gaston, Comte de Foix, tenant les droits de la haute justice, de la milieu, et de la basse.' Which signifies in our speech: `To the very powerful and very honorable knight, Sir Nigel Loring of Christchurch, from his very faithful friend Sir Claude Latour, captain of the White Company, chatelain of Biscar, grand lord of Montchateau and vassal to the renowned Gaston, Count of Foix, who holds the rights of the high justice, the middle and the low.'"
When one was related to the Mansons and the Rushworths one had a "droit de cite" (as Mr.
I remember how I, invariably so taciturn, suddenly fastened upon Zverkov, when one day talking at a leisure moment with his schoolfellows of his future relations with the fair sex, and growing as sportive as a puppy in the sun, he all at once declared that he would not leave a single village girl on his estate unnoticed, that that was his droit de seigneur, and that if the peasants dared to protest he would have them all flogged and double the tax on them, the bearded rascals.
She was a commoner, and had been sent here on her bridal night by Sir Breuse Sance Pite, a neighboring lord whose vassal her father was, and to which said lord she had refused what has since been called le droit du seigneur, and, moreover, had opposed violence to violence and spilt half a gill of his almost sacred blood.
P our Messaoud Bouhcine, president du Syndicat marocain des professionnels des arts dramatiques, le Maroc a signe [beaucoup moins que]approximativement[beaucoup plus grand que] toutes les conventions relatives aux droits d'auteur et droits voisins.
canadienne des droits et libertes (8) [ci-apres [beaucoup moins

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