The right to have a thing. The right to be put in actual possession of property. Lewin, Trusts, 5S5.

In the civil and old English law. The right of drawing water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27,

The right of inheritance .

The body of Roman law, which was made up of edicts of the supreme magistrates, particularly the praetors.

In Roman law. The right to use or display pictures or statutes of ancestors; somewhat analogous to the right in English law , to bear a coat of arms.

In the civil law . The law of immunity or exemption from the burden of public office. Dig. 50, 6.

A right against a person; a right which gives its possessor a power to oblige another person to give or procure, to do or not to do, something.

In the civil law . A right in a thing. A right existing in a person with respect to an article or subject of property, inherent in his relation to […]

An unknown law. This term is applied by the civilians to obsolete laws. Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 33.

An individual or indivisible right; a right incapable of division. 36 Eng. Law & Eq. 25.

rites and religious ceremonies of the different peoples.

In Roman law. The right of Latium or of the Latins. The principal privilege of the Latins seems to have been the use of their own laws, and their not […]

In Roman law. A rule of law applicable to magistrates in Latium. It was either majus Latium or minus Latium,

A legal right In the civil law . A right which was enforceable in the ordinary course of law. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

The right of a husband; especially the right which a husband acquires to his wife’s movable estate by virtue of the marriage. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 1, p. 03.

In old English law . Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession . 2 Bl. Comm. 197; […]

See law of nature .

The natural law , or law of nature ; law, or legal principles, supposed to be discoverable by the light of nature or abstract reasoning, or to be taught by […]

The law of nature . See Jrs NATURAI.E.

The right of navigating or navigation ; the right of commerce by ships or by sea. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 3.

In Roman law. The right of death, or of putting to death. A right which a father anciently had over his children. Jus non habenti tute non paretur. One who […]

The unwritten law . 1 Bl. Comm. 64.

In Roman law, the right of subrogation , that is, the right of succeeding to the lien and priority of an elder creditor on tendering or paying into court the […]

In the civil and old English law. The right of pasturing cattle. Inst. 2, 3, 2; Bract, fols. 53&, 222

the city of Rome, and afterwards extended to some of the colonies and provinces of the empire, consisting principally in the right to have a free constitution , to be […]