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Right, Writ of [breve de recto, Lat.], a procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years' adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called the writ of right proper. Abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 27; last used in 1835 in Davies v. Lowndes, (1835) 1 Bing NC 597.