Droit

A right; law abstractly considered. Opposed to Idi: law in the concrete sense. Equivalent to jtis in the Roman law. See Monstbans. Autre droit.

Another's right

En autre droit. In another's right. Applied to an administrator, executor, guardian, prochein ami, or other representative of another's rights or interest.* Droit civil. A private right independent of citizenship.

Droit-droit.

A right upon a right; a double right: rights of possession and of property joined — necessary to a complete title to land. A jus duplicatum." Droit international.

International law

Droit maritime.

Maritime law

Droit of admiralty. In English law, applied to a ship of the enemy taken by an uncommissioned subject; and to a vessel seized in a port, on the breaking out of war. Also spoken of as an admiralty droit.^ »Soule V. San Francisco Gas Light Co., 64 Cal. 241 (1880). = The Nithsdale, 15 XTp.

Can. Law J. 269 (1879). 'Watson V. Knowles, 13 E. I. 641 (1882). • See 1 Greenl. Ev. § 179. » See 2 Bl. Com. 199. Droitural.

Used of an action upon a writ of right, as distinguished from a possessory action, upon the fact of, or right to, possession merely.