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: legal_right
English
> 1 sense of the expression
legal right
:
NOUN
attribute
legal right
a right based in
law
English
>
legal right
: 1 sense
> noun 1, attribute
Meaning
A right based in
law
.
Narrower
compulsory process
The right of a
defendant
to have a court use its
subpoena
power to
compel
the
appearance
of
material witnesses
before the court
conjugal right
The right of
married persons
to the
enjoyment
of
association
and
sympathy
and
confidence
and
domestic
/
domestic
happiness
and the comfort of living together and
eating
meals
at the same table and
profiting
from
joint
property right
and the
intimacies
of
domestic
/
domestic
relations
/
relations
conjugal visitation right
,
conjugal visitation
The
legal right
in a
prison
for the
inmate
and
spouse
to have
sexual intercourse
copyright
,
right of first publication
A
document
granting
exclusive right
to
publish
and
sell
literary
or
musical
or
artistic
work
eminent domain
The right of the
state
/
state
to take
private property
for
public
use
franchise
,
enfranchisement
A
statutory
right or
privilege
granted
to a
person
or
group
by a
government
(especially the rights of
citizenship
and the
right to vote
)
patent right
The right
granted
by a
patent
/
patent
preemption
,
pre-emption
The right of a
government
to
seize
or appropriate something (as property)
right of election
In
probate
law
right of entry
The
legal right
to take
possession
of
real estate
in a
peaceable
manner
right of offset
(banking) the
legal right
of a
bank
to
seize
deposited
funds
to cover a
loan
that is in
default
right of privacy
A
legal right
(
not
explicitly
provided in the
United States Constitution
) to be
left alone
right of re-entry
The
legal right
to
resume
possession
(a right that was reserved when a
former
possession
was parted with)
seat
The
legal right
to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
tenure
,
land tenure
The right to
hold
property
title
,
claim
An established or
recognized
right
use
,
enjoyment
(law) the exercise of the
legal right
to
enjoy
/
enjoy
the
benefits
of
owning
property
usufruct
A
legal right
to use and
derive
profit
from property belonging to
someone
else provided that the property itself is
not
injured
in any
way
visitation right
The right
granted
by a court to a parent (or other
relative
) who is
deprived
of
custody
of a
child
to visit the
child
on a regular basis
Broader
right
An
abstract
idea
of that which is due to a
person
or
governmental
body
by
law
or
tradition
or nature
Spanish
derecho legal
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