droit de bris
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.