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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 the violation of which would be a legal wrong. Respect for such interest would be a...
Civil rights
Civil rights, means any right accruing to a person by reason of the abolition of 'untouchability' by article 17 of the Constitution. [Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 (22 of 1955), s. 2 (a)] 1. The...
Occupancy right
Occupancy right, occupancy rights are creatures of statutes, or to be more precise the creatures of custom adopted by statute, which by defining the nature of the evidence, which a person claiming such rights is required...
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Right of private defence
Right of private defence, the right of private defence of person and property is recognised in all free, civilised, democratic societies within certain reasonable limits. Those limits are dictated by two considerations: (1) that the same...
Right to elect
Right to elect, a right to elect, fundamental though it is to democracy, is, anomalously enough, neither a fundamental right nor a common law right. It is pure and simple, a statutory right. So is the...
Right to sue
Right to sue, the 'right to sue' means the right to bring a suit asserting a right to the same relief which the deceased plaintiff asserted at the time of his death'. Thus, contracts involving the...
Right to work
Right to work, Right to work as a fundamental right can only be considered in fundamental right in those cases where there is a legislative guarantee in the form of legislation. In the absence of 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...
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...
Locus standi
Locus standi, is a place for standing, rights to be heard, A Dictionary of Law, William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 637. Locus standi, is the right of the petitioner against a private, provisional order or hybrid...
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