DROIT D’AUBAINE
droit de bris (drwah d<<schwa>> bree), 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.[Blacks Law 8th]