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  • RIGHT IN ACTION
    This is a phrase frequently used in place of chose in action, and having an identical meaning.
  • RIGHT IN COURT
    See RECTUS IN CURIA.
  • RIGHT OF ACTION
    The right to bring suit; a legal right to maintain an action, growing out of a given transaction or state .of i facts and- based thereon. Hibbard v. Clark, 56 N. H. 155, 22 Am. Rep. 442; Webster v. County Com'rs, 63 Me. 29. / By the old writers, "right More...
  • RIGHT OF DISCUSSION
    In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor, before he shall he called upon. 1 Bell, Comm. 347.
  • RIGHT OF DIVISION
    In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt , To entitle the cautioner to this right the other cautioners must be solvent and there must be no words in the bond to exclude More...
  • RIGHT OF ENTRY
    A right of entry is the right of taking or resuming possession of land by entering on it in a peaceable manner.
  • RIGHT OF HABITATION
    In Louisiana. The right to occupy another man's house as a dwelling, without paying rent or other compensation.
  • RIGHT OF POSSESSION
    The right to possession which may reside in one man, while another has the actual possession, being the right to enter and turn out such actual occupant; e. g., the right of a disseisee. An apparent right of possession Is one which may be defeated by a better; an actual More...
  • RIGHT OF PROPERTY
    The mere right of property in land; the abstract right which remains to the owner after he has lost the right of possession, and to recover which the writ of right was given. United with possession, and the right of possession, this right constitutes a complete title to lands, tenements, More...
  • RIGHT OF REDEMPTION
    The right to disincumber property or to free it from a claim or lien; specifically, the right (granted by statute only) to free property from the incumbrance of a foreclosure or other judicial sale, or to recover the title passing thereby, by paying what is due, with interest, costs, etc. More...
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