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  • RIGHT OF RELIEF
    In Scotch law. The right of a cautioner (surety) to demand reimbursement from the principal debtor when he has been compelled to pay the debt 1 Bell, Comm. 847.
  • RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE
    By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Vict c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or mtfsical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of representing or causing it to*be represented in public at any place in the British dominions during More...
  • RIGHT OF SEARCH
    In international law. The right of one vessel, on the high seos, to stop a vessel of another nationality and examine her papers and (in some cases) her cargo. Thus, in time of war, a vessel of either belligerent has the right to search a neutral ship, encountered at sea, More...
  • RIGHT OF WAY
    The right of passage or of way is a servitude Imposed by law or by convention, and by virtue of which one has a right to pass on foot, or horseback, or In a vehicle, to drive beasts of burden or carts, through the estate of another. When this servitude More...
  • RIGHT PATENT
    An obsolete writ, which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only fQr an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate; as tenant in tall, tenant in frank marriage, or tenant for life. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 1.
  • RIGHT TO BEGIN
    On the hearing or trial of a cause, or tbe argument of a demurrer, petition, etc., the right to begin ia the right of first addressing the court or jury. The right to begin is frequently of Importance, as the counsel who begins haa also tbe right of replying or More...
  • RIGHT TO REDEEM
    The term "right of redemption," or "r(ght to redeem," In familiarly used to describe the estate of tbe debtor when under mortgage, to be sold at -auction, in contradistinction to an absolute estate, to be set off by appraisement It would- be more consonant to the legal character of this More...
  • RIGHT, WRIT OF
    A procedure for the recovery of real property after not more than sixty years' adverse possession; the highest writ in the law, sometimes called, to distinguish it from others of the droitural class, the "writ of right proper." Abolished by 3 A 4 Wm. IV. c. 27. 3 Steph. Comm. More...
  • RIGHTS OF PERSONS
    Rights which concern and are annexed to the persona of men. 1 Bl. Comm. 122.
  • RIGHTS OF THINGS
    Such aa a man may acquire over external objects, or things unconnected with his person. 1 BL Comm. 122.
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