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Relative rights

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Those rights of persons which are incident to them as members of society, and standing in various relations to each other.

1 Bl. Comm. 123.

Those rights of persons in private life which arise from the civil and domestic relations.

2 Kent, Comm. 1.

Relative words refer to the next antecedent, unless the sense be thereby impaired.

Noy, Max. 4; Wing. Max. 19; Broom, Max. 606; Jenk. Cent 180.