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Right to practise

Right to practise, the words 'right to practise' would in its normal connotation take in not merely right to plead but the right to act as well. In re Lily Isabel Thomas, AIR 1964 SC 855: (1964) 6 SCR 229...


Right to information

Right to information, means the right to informa-tion accessible under this Act which is held by or under the control of any public authority and includes the right to--(i) inspection of work, document, records;(ii) taking notes, extracts or certified copies of documents or records;(iii) taking certified samples of material;(iv) obtaining information in the from of diskettes, floppies, tapes, video cassettes or in any other electronic mode or through printouts where such information is stored in a computer or in any other device. [Right of Information Act, 2005, s. 2(j)]...


Right of privacy

Right of privacy, any right to privacy must encom-pass and protect the personal intimacies of the home, the family, marriage, motherhood, pro-creation and child rearing. This catalogue approach to the question is obviously not as instructive as it does not give analytical picture of the distinctive characteristics of threat of privacy. Perhaps, the only suggestion that can be offered as unifying principle underlying the concept has been the assertion that a claimed right must be a fundamental right implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, Govind v. State of Madhya Pradesh, AIR 1975 SC 1378: (1975) 2 SCC 148: (1975) 3 SCR 946. [Constitution of India, Arts. 21, 19(1)(d)]...


Real right

Real right, the right of property, jus in re. The per-son having such right may sue for the subject itself. A personal right, jus ad rem, entitles the party only to an action for performance of the obligation.,...


Folc-right, or folk-right

Folc-right, or folk-right, the jus commune, or common Law, mentioned in the laws of King Edward the Elder, declaring the same equal right, law, or justice to be due to persons of all degrees....


Performing right

Performing right, 'performing right' means the right of performing in public, broad-casting and causing to be transmitted to subscribers to a diffusion service, in all parts of the world, Performing Right Society Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income Tax, AIR 1976 SC 1973 (1974): (1976) 4 SCC 37: (1977) 1 SCR 171....


Object of a right

Object of a right, means the thing in respect of which a right exists, the subject-matter of a right. Also termed subject of a right, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1101...


Inchoate right

Inchoate right, means (1) A right that has not fully developed, matured, or vested. (2) Patents. An inventor's right that has not yet vested into a property right because the patent application is pending, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 765...


Fundamental right

Fundamental right, is protected and guaranteed by the written Constitution of a State, Commentary or the Constitution of India, Vol. 1, p. 126.Part III of the Constitution deals with fundamental rights. These are paramount to ordinary State-made laws, A.K. Gopalan v. State of Madras, 1950 SCR 76.Any State Act, which is repugnant to such rights is void, Mahendra v. State of Uttar Pradesh, AIR 1963 SC 1019.Fundamental rights, a right becomes a fundamental right because it has foundational value. Fundamental right is a limitation on the power of State. If is not to be regarded as a gift from State to its citizens but possessed by an individual independently by reason of basic fact that they are members of human race, M. Nagaraj v. Union of India, 2006 (8) SCC 212: 2006 (9) JT 191: 2006 (10) SCALE 301: 2006 (8) Supreme 89: 2006 (8) SLT 1: 2006 (8) SCJ 457 [Constitution of India, Arts. 14 to 30]...


Absolute right

Absolute right, means a right that belongs to every human being, such as the right of personal liberty; a natural right, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1322....



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