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natural right : a right considered to be conferred by natural law [James Madison…distinguished natural rights, such as life and liberty, from rights that are part of the compact between citizen and government "L. H. Tribe"] ...
juridical person
juridical person in the civil law of Louisiana : an entity (as a partnership or corporation) that is given rights and responsibilities compare natural person NOTE: The rights and responsibilities of a juridical person are distinct from those of the natural persons constituting it. ...
Water and watercourse
Water and watercourse. In the language of the law the term 'land' includes water, 2 Bl. Com. 18. An action cannot be brought to recover possession of a pool or other piece of water by the name of water only, but it must be brought for the land that lies at the bottom, e.g. 'twenty acres of land covered with water.'-Brownl. 142. See POOL. By granting a certain water, though the right of fishing passes, yet the soil does not. Water being a movable, wandering thing, there can be only a temporary, transient, usufructuary property therein. Consult Coulson and Forbes on the Law of Waters, Gale on Easements, and Angell on Watercourse. 'Water' does not include the land on which it stands, unless perhaps in the case of salt pits or springs, where the interest of each owner is measured by builleries, ballaries or buckets of brine, Burt. Comp. pl. (550), and see Co. Litt. 4 b.The (English) Waterworks Clauses Act, 1847, and the Waterworks Clauses Act, 1863 (see Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Water,' and...
right
right [Old English riht, from riht righteous] 1 a : qualities (as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval b : something that is morally just [able to distinguish from wrong] 2 : something to which one has a just claim: as a : a power, privilege, or condition of existence to which one has a natural claim of enjoyment or possession [the of liberty] [that all men…are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable s "Declaration of Independence"] see also natural right b : a power, privilege, immunity, or capacity the enjoyment of which is secured to a person by law [one's constitutional s] c : a legally enforceable claim against another that the other will do or will not do a given act [the defendant may be under a legal duty…to exercise reasonable care for the plaintiff's safety, so that the plaintiff has a corresponding legal to insist on that care "W. L. Prosser and W. P. K...
natural
natural 1 : based on an inherent sense of right and wrong [ justice] see also natural law, natural right 2 a : existing as part of or determined by nature [the condition of the land] b : being in accordance with or arising from nature esp. as distinguished from operation of law see also natural person compare artificial c : arising from the usual course of events [a result of the accident] 3 a : begotten as distinguished from adopted b : being a relation by consanguinity as distinguished from adoption [ parents] 4 : illegitimate [a child] nat·u·ral·ly adv ...
Support
Support, to support a rule or order is to argue in answer to the arguments of the party who has shown cause against a rule or order nisi.The help which every landowner receives at the boundary of his land from his neighbour's land, which lies close to his and prevents its falling in and crumbling away, as it would do if his neighbour dug away the surface of his land to the very edge, Goddard on Easements. The right of an owner to the support of surface in its natural position is a presumption of Common Law and not part of a grant of mines or power to work the same, and a power to let down the surface must be expressly granted in a lease, Warwickshire Coal Company v. Coventry Corporation, 1934 Ch 488. As to the right of support for buildings, see, further, the leading case of Dalton v. Angus, (1881) 6 App Cas 740, in which it was held by the House of Lords that there is natural right to lateral support for buildings. This is an easement which may be acquired by twenty years' uninterrupt...
Freedom of speech and expression
Freedom of speech and expression, includes freedom of propagation of idea which is ensured by freedom of circulation, Romesh Thappar v. State of Madras, AIR 1950 SC 124: 1950 SCR 594: 1950 Cri LJ 1514. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Carries with it the right to publish and circulate one's ideas, opinions and views, Sakal Papers (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Union of India, AIR 1962 SC 305.Means the right to express one's opinion by words of mouth, writing, printing, picture or in any other manner. It would thus include the freedom of communication and the right to propagate or publish opinion, S. Rangarajan v. P. Jagjivan Ram, (1989) 2 SCC 574. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Includes right of citizens to exhibit films on Doordashan, Odyssey Communications (Pvt.) Ltd. v. Lokvidayan Sanghattana, (1988) 3 SCC 410. See also People's Union for Civil Liberties v. Union of India, (2003) 4 SCC 399.Is a natural r...
Adoption
Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany, where the civil law (as to which, see Sand. Just.) prevails to any great extent. In 1889 and 1890, Lord Meath introduced Bills in the House of Lords to legalize adoption.By the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 29), after the 31st December, 1925, the Court (usually in the Chancery Division) may authorize the adoption of an infant who is under twenty-one years of age, a British subject, and resident in England and Wales, by an applicant who is more than twenty-five years of age, and also twenty-one years older than the infant, unless closely related, and a British subject, resident and domiciled in England or Wales, but a single adopter, only, will be authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court finds special reason...
natural law
natural law : a body of law or a specific principle of law that is held to be derived from nature and binding upon human society in the absence of or in addition to positive law NOTE: While natural law, based on a notion of timeless order, does not receive as much credence as it did formerly, it was an important influence on the enumeration of natural rights by Thomas Jefferson and others. ...
Quod nullius est id ratione naturali occupanti conceditur
Quod nullius est id ratione naturali occupanti conceditur (D. 41, I, 3), that which is on one's is granted to the occupant by natural right.--Pand. J. xli, (What belongs to nobody is given to the occupant by natural right.) see FINDER....
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