exclusive
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Bouvier (1839)
Definitions from Case Law
From 482 U.S. 522 - Société Nationale Industrielle Aérospatiale v. United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa · 1987Most cited · 802 citing opinions
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Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Shutting out; debarring from interference or participation; vested in one person alone. An exclusive right is one which only the grantce thereof can exercise, and from which all others are prohibited or shut out. A statute does not grant an “exclusive” privilege or franchise, unless ié shuts ont or excludes others from enjoying a similar privilege or franchise. 98 N. Y. 151.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
That which debars, deprives, or excepts: as, an exclusive right, privilege, or jurisdiction, which is possessed, enjoyed or exercised independently of another or others.2 Opposed, inclusive. See Enumeration; Only; Possession, Adverse.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
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.