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droit de suite, n. Law.
Brit. |ˌdrwɑː də ˈswiːt|, U.S. |ˌdrwɑ də ˈswit|
[‹ French droit de suite right of a lord to seize a serf who has fled, or his property, in another jurisdiction (1690), right of an artist to claim royalties on the public resale of his works (1920; 16th cent. in sense ‘right of a mortgagee out of possession to follow property mortgaged to him into the hands of a third party’) > n.1 + de of + suite pursuit (see suit n.).]
1. Feudal Law. The legal right of a lord to seize a serf who has fled, or the property of such a serf, in another jursidiction. Now hist. and rare.
1779Gentleman's Mag. 49 545 We ordain that the Droit de Suite over mainmortables shall henceforth be abolished and suppressed. 1831in R. Jones Peasant Rents (1895) iii. 78 Proprietors, exercising their droit de suite.., had forced the reluctant tribunals of the king to deliver into their hands the property of deceased citizens..who were proved to have been originally serfs on the estates of the claimants. 1926G. Renard & G. Weulersse Life & Work Mod. Europe ix. 334 In the last years of the sixteenth century..the lord was given an absolute droit de suite over all the occupants of his domain. 1962E. M. Evanston tr. G. Lefebvre French Revol. I. iii. 47 Louis XVI freed French serfs from the droit de suite, by which a lord could claim his subject wherever he found him.
2. Fine Art. The legal right of the creator of an artwork to collect a royalty on its (public) resale by another party.
Such a right is granted by law in various jurisdictions, esp. in the countries of the European Union.
1922Jrnl. Compar. Legislation & Internat. Law 4 189 This law gives to artists what is described as a droit de suite or a lien on their works which are publicly sold. 1948G. Murray From League to U.N. 209 The Droit de Suite (i.e. his [sc. the artist's] right, when a picture which he has sold goes up in value, to have some percentage on subsequent sales). 1987N.Y. Times 12 Dec. 30/5 ‘Droit de suite’ legislation..[allows] the creator..to share in some small measure in the financial gains derived from..his creation. 2005Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 27/1 The study warns that droit de suite will undermine London's importance, second only to New York, in the world art market. |