Sovereign right
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A right exclusively vested in the state or government. See 4o Minn. 387, 48 N. W. 17.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A right which the state alone, or some of its governmental agencies, can possess, and which it possesses in the character of a sovereign, for the common benefit, and to enable it to carry out its proper functions; distinguished from such "proprietary" rights as a state, like any private person, may have in property or demands which it owns. See St. Paul v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 45 Minn. 387, 48 N. W. 17.
Defined under Sovereign in Black's Law Dictionary.