Meaning | A right based in law. |
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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 |
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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 |
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Spanish | derecho legal |
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