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Right Patent

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Right patent. An obsolete writ which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate, as tenant-in-tail, tenant-in-frank marriage, or tenant for life, Fitz. N.B. 1.

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