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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 ...
G. Jèze, « La définition légale du Juif au sens des incapacités légales », Revue de Droit Public, 1944, p. 78 Le conflit italo-abyssin, M. Gaston Jèze, representant de l'Éthiopie respond au memorandum italien devant le conseil de la S. Des N., L'Ouest-Éclair, 1935-09-06
Droit du seigneur [a] ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis [b] ('right of the first night'), sometimes referred to as prima nocta, [c] was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night.
In French law, judges cannot create legal norms, because of the principle known as "la prohibition des arrêts de règlement" of Article 5 of the French civil code: "Judges are forbidden from pronouncing in a generally dispositive and regulatory fashion on the matters submitted to them." They can only put into evidence and interpret existing norms.
UNIDROIT (formally, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law; French: Institut international pour l'unification du droit privé) is an intergovernmental organization whose objective is to harmonize private international law across countries through uniform rules, international conventions, and the production of model laws, sets of principles, guides and guidelines.
The Traité de droit commercial was written by Ripert, then by Ripert and René Roblot. Other works were the Traité de droit maritime and essays such as La règle morale dans les obligations civile (1926) and Le régime démocratique et le droit civil moderne (1936). As Dean of the Faculty of Law of Paris he welcomed Jews in the name of ...
Marcel Planiol (1891), L'Esprit de la coutume de Bretagne, par Marcel Planiol, Vannes: impr. de Lafolye, p. 17; Marcel Planiol (1953–1955), Histoire des institutions de la Bretagne, droit public et droit privé, vol. 1-3 (368, 317, 333 p.), preface by Edmond Durtelle de Saint-Sauveur, Rennes: Éditions du Cercle de Brocéliande
Both the manorial lord's right to these dues and the banality-dues themselves are called droit de banalité. The object of this right was qualified as banal, e.g. the four banal or taureau banal. The peasants could also be subjected to the banalité de tor et ver, meaning that only the lord had the right to own a bull or a boar. The deliberate ...