DROIT DU SEIGNEUR

By SovConn | July 26, 2014

droit  du  seigneur  (drwah  d<<schwa>>  sen-yuur).  [French  “right  of  the  lord”]  Hist.  1.A

supposed customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual intercourse with a tenant’s bride on her

wedding  night. 2.  A  supposed  custom  requiring  sexual  abstinence  by  a  couple  on  their  wedding

night. — Also spelled droit de seigneur. — Also termed jus primae noctis. [Blacks Law 8th]

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