Law Dictionary

the person— "(A) who, with respect to a sound recording, first fixes a sound recording with authorization, or "(B) who has acquired rights from the person described in subparagraph

A chose m ao Uon (q. V.)

See "Rectus In Curia."

See In personam .

See Jura in rem .

The right of a riparian owner to pass to and from the waters of the lake within the width of his premises as they border on the lake. 202 111. 431.

the right to file a civil action in the courts against the United States." Id., at 511.

The right of aliens to acquire citizenship is purely statutory; and the petitioner's child, having been born and remained abroad, clearly does not come within the terms of the stat

the right of appeal is not essential to due process, provided that due process has already been accorded in the tribunal of first instance

The right of appeal is not essential to due process. It was, therefore, competent for the state to prescribe the procedure and conditions.

There cannot be wrung from a constitutional right of workers to assemble to discuss improvement of their own working standards, a further constitutional right to drive from remuner

See Common .

the Sixth Amendment's right of an accused to confront the witnesses against him is likewise a fundamental right and is made obligatory on the States by the Fourteenth Amendment,' t

the right of confrontation secured by the Philippine civil government act is in the nature of a privilege extended to the accused, rather than a restriction upon him, and that he i

The right of discovery. See 1 Stew. & P. (Ala.) 327.

Liberty in religious belief and observance. See 36 Mo. 263.

the right of cross-examination is included in the right of an accused in a criminal case to confront the witnesses against him'; 'a major reason underlying the constitutional confr

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has to insist that the creditor shall do his best to compel the performance of the contract by the principal debtor before he

In Scotch law. The right which each of several cautioners (sureties) has to refuse to answer for more than his own share of the debt. To entitle the cautioner to this right, the ot

See Dower .

One’s right or easement to bring down water through or from the land of another. See 108 N. Y. 453, 15 N. E. 739.

The easement of permitting rain-water to drip from a roof to the land of a neighbor.

The privilege of the eldest heir of taking the whole estate, if indivisible, and paying the others an equivalent in money. See 60 Md. 573.

The power to oblige an individual to sell and convey when the public necessities require it. See 6 Cranch (U. S.), 87, 3 L. Ed. 162.

A right of entry Is the right of taking or resuming possession of land by entering on it in a peaceable manner.

property to which there is under the state law a present right of exemption—one which withdraws the property from levy and sale under judicial process

Same as Fishery.

a right closely allied to freedom of speech and a right which, like free speech, lies at the foundation of a free society

In Louisiana. The right of dwelling gratuitously in a house the property of another. Civ. Code La. art. 623; 3 Toullier, Dr. Civ. c. 2, p. 325; 14 Toullier, Dr. Civ. note 279, p. 3

A quality annexed to land whereby an estate is exempt from execution sale for debt. See 77 N. C. 379.

The Regulation is merely declaratory of a surety's customary right of indemnity for amounts paid pursuant to an obligation of the guarantor assumed with the consent of the principa

The word lien is of the same origin as the word liable, and the right of lien expresses the liability of certain property for a certain legal duty, or a right to resort to it in or

Although the United States retained the fee, and the tribe's right of occupancy was incapable of alienation or of being held otherwise than in common, that right is as sacred and a

The right of peaceable assembly is a right cognate to those of free speech and free press and is equally fundamental. As this Court said in United States v. Cruikshank: 'The very i

The right of petition extends to all departments of the Government. The right of access to the courts is indeed but one aspect of the right of petition.

"right of possession" means possession obtained with the voluntary consent of an individual or group that had authority of alienation. The original acquisition of a Nativ

this is only a privilege conferred on the settler to purchase land in preference to others. . . . His settlement protects him from intrusion or purchase by others, but confers no r

Water is diverted to propel machinery in flour mills and saw mills, and to irrigate land for cultivation, as well as to enable miners to work their mining claims; and in all such c

The right of priority forms no part of the contract itself. It (the right of priority) is intrinsic, and rather a personal privilege dependent on the law of the place where the pro

It marks the right of privacy as one of the unique values of our civilization and, with few exceptions, stays the hands of the police unless they have a search warrant issued by a

The abstract right {merum jus) which remains after the actual possession has been so long gone that the right of possession is also lost, and the law will only allow recovery of th

The statutory right to redeem property from judicial sale. See 62 Kan. 69, 61 Pac. 406.

It is a settled rule at the common law, that where a right of re-entry is claimed on the ground of forfeiture for the non-payment of rent, there must be proof of a demand of the pr

It is clear, by the common law, that a right of re-entry always supposes an estate in the party, and cannot be reserved to a mere stranger... 'therefore, I have always thought, tha

It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result

In Scotch law. The right which the cautioner (surety) has against the principal debtor when he has been forced to pay his debt. 1 Bell, Comm. (5th Ed.) 347.

The right, unrestrained and unpenalized by state action, on compliance with the forms required by the law of the United States, to ask the removal of a cause pending in a state to

By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Viet c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or musical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of representing or causing it to be

A contractual right of sale of an article constitutes th^ taker of such right an agent for the sale of the article, but does not bind the giver to supply the article; 6 L. R. Ir. 3

See "Search, Right of;" 1 Kent, Comm. (9th Ed.) 153, note; 1 Phillim. Int. Law, 325.

probably there are few doctrines better established than that a surety who pays the debt of another is entitled to all the rights of the person he paid to enforce his right to be r

See Suffrage .

Same as Right of action.

The rights of children to be supported by their parents and parents by their children and of one spouse by the other. See Right to lateral support .

In Mexican law. The right enjoyed by an usufructuary of property, of buying the property at the same price at which the owner offers it to any other person or is willing to take fr

The aim of the amendment, as this Court has held, is to preserve the substance of the common-law right of trial by jury, as distinguished from mere matters of form or procedure, an

there is no principle of constitutional law which entitles one to be tried in the place of his residence. The right secured by article 3, § 2, and the 6th Amendment of the Constitu

The ordinary signification of the term 'right of way,' when used to describe land which a railroad corporation owns or is entitled to use for railroad purposes, is the entire strip

The term “right-of-way document” has the meaning given the term in section 169.2 of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations (as in effect on May 4, 2026).

A personal right of way which is not assignable and is not appurtenant to other land. See 38 Cal. Ill, 99 Am. Dec. 354.

relevant constitutional restraints limit state power to terminate an entitlement whether the entitlement is denominated a 'right' or a 'privilege.

The name of an ancient writ, which, Fitzherbert says, "ought to be brought of lands and tenements, and not of an advowson, or of common, and lieth only of an estate of fee simple,

All rights tend to declare themselves absolute to their logical extreme. Yet all in fact are limited by the neighborhood of principles of policy which are other than those on which

Rights against a thing. See In rem .

The term “benefit”, “benefit of employment”, or “rights and benefits” means the terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, including any advantage, profit, privilege, gain, st

a great deal more than the mere use and possession of the evidence of title.

A class of rights which one may have in another's land without their being exercised in connection with the occupancy of other lands, in which cases RIGOR JURIS (Law Lat.) Strictne

the term "rights of access" means visitation rights; / The term "rights of access" means the establishment of rights of contact between a child and a parent see

The term "rights of custody" means rights of care and custody of a child, including the right to determine the place of residence of a child, under the laws of the countr

The term "rights of interim contact" means the rights of contact between a child and a left-behind parent, which has been provided as a provisional measure while an abduc

Bights which concern and are annexed to the persons ot men. 1 Bl. Comin. 122.

Rights of succession to the property of a deceased, whether by will or by intestacy, are of statutory creation, and the dead hand rules succession only by sufferance. Nothing in th

Such as a man may acquire over external objects or things unconnected with his person. 1 BL Com 122.

The rights of war can only take place among enemies, and therefore a capture can give no right, unless the property captured be the property of an enemy.

The rights of way there in view are those that involve an investment of the moneys of the carrier, and result in the possession of the land itself, the roadbed on which the tracks

The term “rights owner” means— (A) the person that has the exclusive right to reproduce a sound recording under the laws of any State, as of the day before the date of enactment of

Section 241 applies only to interference with rights which arise from the relation of the victim and the Federal Government, and not to interference by State officers with rights w

The mere issue of rights to subscribe and their receipt by stockholders is not a dividend. No distribution of corporate assets or diminution of the net worth of the corporation res

The right to a hearing embraces not only the right to present evidence, but also a reasonable opportunity to know the claims of the opposing party and to meet them. The right to su

See Alluvion .

The right to a patent once vested is treated by the government, when dealing with the public lands, as equivalent to a patent issued. When, in fact, the patent does issue, it relat

The right to a reasonable rate is the right to the rate which the Commission files or fixes, and, except for review of the Commission's orders, the courts can assume no right to a

We hold here that the right to a speedy trial is as fundamental as any of the rights secured by the Sixth Amendment. That right has its roots at the very foundation of our English

In practice. The party who asserts the affirmative of an issue has the right to begin.and reply, as on him is the burden of proof. The substantial affirmative, not the verbal, give

The right to be heard must necessarily embody a right to file motions and pleadings essential to present claims and raise relevant issues.

Regardless of whether petitioner would have been entitled to the appointment of counsel, his right to be heard through his own counsel was unqualified.

in a capital case, where the defendant is unable to employ counsel, and is incapable adequately of making his own defense because of ignorance, feeble-mindedness, illiteracy, or th

appointment of counsel for an indigent is required at every stage of a criminal proceeding where substantial rights of a criminal accused may be affected

a person's Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel attaches only at or after the time that adversary judicial proceedings have been initiated against him

where the investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime but has begun to focus on a particular suspect, the suspect has been taken into police custody, the po

where the assistance of counsel is a constitutional requisite, the right to be furnished counsel does not depend on a request.

To detain for examination is a right which a belligerant may exercise over every vessel, not a national vessel, that he meets with on the ocean.

The general rule is settled for the federal tribunals that a plaintiff possesses the unqualified right to dismiss his complaint at law or his bill in equity unless some plain legal

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

To carry on interstate commerce is not a franchise or a privilege granted by the state; it is a right which every citizen of the United States is entitled to exercise under the Con

The right to evidence to be obtained from an existing object does not depend upon having an interest in it, or, in a case like this, upon having an interest in the original cause,

We have no doubt that the correct doctrine of the English law is, that the right to inherit depends upon the existing state of allegiance at the time of the descent cast. And that

A statute, therefore, which imposes heavy penalties for violation of commands of an unascertained quality is, in its nature, somewhat akin to an ex post facto law, since it punishe

the right to jury trial guarantees to the criminally accused a fair trial by a panel of impartial, 'indifferent' jurors

the constitutional right to trial by jury cannot be made to depend upon the choice of words used in the pleadings.