Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

droit de bris

n. [Law French "right of a wreck"] Hist. A right claimed by lords of the coasts of France to fragments of shipwrecks, including persons or property that had washed ashore. ( The right was exercised primarily in Bretagne but was abrogated by Henry III as duke of Normandy, Aquitaine, and Guienne, in a charter granted in A.D. 1226. -Also termed droit de bris sur le naufrages. Cf. DROIT DE NAUFRAGE.