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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

rights. The act of preventing one from participating ina thing. An exclusive right or privilege, is one granted to a person to do a thing, and forbidding all others todo the same. A patentright or copy-right, are of this kind.