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Right and legal right

Right and legal right, 'right' is an interest recog-nised and protected by moral or legal rules. It is an interest...

Reversion [fr. revertor, Lat.], that portion left of an estate after a grant of a particular portion of it, short...

Remainder [fr. remanentia, Lat.], that expectant portion, remnant, or residue of interest which, on the creation of a particular estate,...

Ordinance, may be purely administrative in nature, establishing offices, prescribing duties, or setting salaries; it may have to do with...

Or, construed as 'and'. The courts may construe 'or' as 'and' if they find from the context that the wrong...

Option of purchase in a lease. A clause giving the lessee the option of purchasing the reversion for a fixed...

National insurance. The (English) National Insur-ance Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 55), introduced by Mr. Lloyd George,...

Duel, in our ancient law, a legal combat between persons in a doubtful case for the trial of the truth,...

Call of the House, an imperative summons sent to every member of the House of Commons, on some particular occasion,...

Dialogus de scaccario. This has generally passed as the work of Gervase of Tilbury; but Mr. Madox thinks it was...