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right of entry 1 a : the legal right of taking or resuming possession of real property in a peaceable manner b : power of termination at power c : the legal right to enter upon real property of another for a special purpose (as to show leased property to a prospective purchaser or to make repairs) without being guilty of trespass 2 : the right of an alien to enter a nation, state, or other political jurisdiction for some special purpose (as journalism or academic study) ...
fundamental right
fundamental right : a right that is considered by a court (as the U.S. Supreme Court) to be explicitly or implicitly expressed in a constitution (as the U.S. Constitution) NOTE: A court must review a law that infringes on a fundamental right under a standard of strict scrutiny. A fundamental right can be limited by a law only if there is a compelling state interest. ...
absolute right
absolute right : an unqualified right : a legally enforceable right to take some action or to refrain from acting at the sole discretion of the person having the right ...
Miranda rights
Miranda rights [from Miranda v. Arizona, the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court ruling establishing such rights] : the rights (as the right to remain silent, to have an attorney present, and to have an attorney appointed if indigent) of which an arresting officer must advise the person being arrested see also Miranda v. Arizona in the Important Cases section NOTE: A reading of the Miranda rights usually includes a warning that anything said could be used as evidence. No statements made by an arrested person or evidence obtained therefrom may be introduced at trial unless the person was advised of or validly waived these rights. A fresh reading of the Miranda rights may be required by the passage of time after the initial reading, as for example if a previously silent person begins to speak or police interrogate a person more than once. ...
Accrued right
Accrued right, means a matured right, a right that is ripe for enforcement as through litigation, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1323....
Right to appeal
Right to appeal, the right of appeal is the creature of a statute. Without a statutory provision creating such a right the person aggrieved is not entitled to file an appeal, Anant Mills Co. Ltd. v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1975 SC 1234: (1975) 2 SCC 175: (1975) 3 SCR 220....
Pretensed right
Pretensed right: where one is in possession of land, and another, who is out of possession claims and sues for it; here the pretensed right is said to be in him who so claims and sues, Mod. Cas. 302.By s. 2 of 32 Hen. 8, c. 9, no one might sell or purchase any title to land, unless the vendor had received the profits, or been in possession of the land, or of the reversion or remainder, for one whole year, on pain that both purchaser and vendor should each forfeit the value of such land to the King and the prosecutor; but a right of entry may be sold by virtue of the Real Property Act, 1845, s. 6, repealed by, and see now, Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 4 (2), and to recover under s. 2 of 32 Hen. 8, c. 9 (which is now repealed by s. 11 of the (English) Land Transfer Act, 1897 (now repealed)), it had to be shown that the buyer knew the title to be bad, Kennedy v. Lyell, (1885) 15 QBD 491....
Pre-emption, Right of
Pre-emption, Right of, the power of buying a thing before others, as superfluous lands under the (English) Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 128, which must before sale be offered to the persons from whom they were originally taken, or to the adjoining owners; as to registration of contracts or deeds giving the right of pre-emption as estate contracts, see (English) Land Charges Act, 1925, s. 10. Compare the right of pre-emption which a county council has by virtue of s. 12 (4) of the Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908. Also, a privilege formerly allowed to the royal purveyor, but abolished by 12 Car. 2, c. 24. See OPTION TO PURCHASE....
Petition of Right
Petition of Right, 3 Car. 1, c. 1, a parliamentary declaration of the liberties of the people, assented to by Charles I. in the beginning of his reign.In the first Parliament of Charles I., which met in 1626, the Commons refused to grant supplies until certain rights and privileges of the subject, which they alleged had been violated, should have been solemnly recognised by a legislative enactment. With this view they framed a petition to the king, in which, after reciting various statutes by which their rights and privileges were recognized, they prayed the king 'that no man be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or suchlike charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament; that none be called upon to make answer so to do; that freemen be imprisoned or detained only by the law of the land, or by due process of law, and not by the king's special command, without any charge; that persons be not compelled to receive soldiers and mariners into their houses agai...
Begin, right to
Begin, right to. See RIGHT TO BEGIN. This right rests with the party on whom is the onus of proving the affirmative. See Best on Evidence, sect. 637....
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