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Right minded
Having a right or honest mind
Amputation of right hand
Amputation of right hand, an ancient punishment for a blow given in a Superior Court; or for assaulting a judge sitting in the Court. it was also inflicted by the Star Chamber for duelling or striking...
Aquatic rights
Aquatic rights, those exercisable in running or still water. See WATERCOURSE.
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Right hearted
Having a right heart or disposition
Base-rights
Base-rights, those by which a grantor creates a subinfeudation in favour of a vassal, to be held of himself, Scots Laws.
Divine Right
Divine Right, the title whereby, particularly in the seventeenth century, English sovereigns claimed to reign. See NON-RESISTANCE.
Imprescriptable rights
Imprescriptable rights, such as a person may use or not, at pleasure, since they cannot be lost to him by the claims of another founded on prescription.
Right in or over land/Land tenure
Right in or over land/Land tenure, these words occurring in Entry 18 in List 11 of Seventh Schedule to the Constitution were sufficiently comprehen-sive to include measures of land tenure reforms, that sought to limit the...
Patent-right
Patent-right, the exclusive privilege granted by the Crown to the first inventor of a new manufacture of making Articles according to his invention. See LETTERS-PATENT.
Rental-rights
Rental-rights, a species of lease usuallygranted at a low rent and for life. Tenants under such leases were called rentalers or kindly tenants.
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