Right Patent
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An obsolete writ, which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson or common, and lay ouiy for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate; as tenant in tail, tenant in frank marriage or tenant for life.
Fitzh. Nat Brev. 1.