droit
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9.9
- noun
- /drwa/
- Formal
- In France, the concept of droit encompasses various legal rights and principles.
- droit international
Examples
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Coppens, D., and B. De Meester. 2005. Public Policy and WTO Law: Regulating Globalization. International Law FORUM du droit international 7:138-143.
Academic text (2011) -
"Recueil des Cours, Académie de Droit International, 86, no. 2 (1954): 207-71.
Academic text (1991) -
Manent devotes two chapters to the "empires" of morality and droit (law and rights).
Academic text (2002) -
Vattel's Droit des Gens, first published in the mid-eighteenth century, was the principal authority on international law at the time of the American founding and was certainly much respected by the American Founders.
Academic text (2003) -
He obtained a partial translation of Emer de Vattel's 1758 Le Droit des Gens ("The Law of Nations)
Academic text (1993) -
The Canadian contributions concluded with Gographie de la circulation adrienne (1956), by Eugne Ppin, director of the Institut de Droit International Arien at McGill University.
Academic text (2003) -
The study of droit is essential for understanding French legal systems.
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Law students often learn about droit as a foundation for their legal education.
Synonyms
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5.5
The job of studying and working with rules in courts
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9.3
The study of law and the ideas behind it
Surface Forms
Etymology
Droit comes from the Latin directus, meaning 'straight' or 'right', and shares the same root as English direct. A helpful way to remember the meaning is to think of law as the rules about what is 'right' and fair, so droit came to mean 'the law' or the study of law.