#legal_right__legalright  a right based in law
  supertype:  #right  an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature: "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
  subtype:  #compulsory_process  the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court
  subtype:  #preemption.legal_right__pre-emption__preemption  the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property)
  subtype:  #title.legal_right__claim  an established or recognized right: "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim"
     subtype:  #own_right__ownright  by title vested in yourself or by virtue of qualifications that you have achieved; "a peer in his own right"; "a leading sports figure in his own right": "a fine opera in its own right"
     subtype:  #entitlement  right granted by law or contract esp to benefits
  subtype:  #eminent_domain__eminentdomain  the right of the state to take private property for public use; the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution requires that just compensation be made
  subtype:  #franchise.legal_right  a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the right to vote)
     subtype:  #right_to_vote__vote__suffrage  a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment; "American women got the vote in 1920"
  subtype:  #patent_right  the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention
  subtype:  #right_of_election  in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute
  subtype:  #right_of_entry  the legal right to take possession of real estate in a peaceable manner
  subtype:  #right_of_re-entry  the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with)
  subtype:  #right_of_privacy  a legal right (not explicitly provided in the US Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity
  subtype:  #use.legal_right__enjoyment  (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property; "we were given the use of his boat"
     subtype:  #fair_use  the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties
  subtype:  #usufruct  a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way
  subtype:  #copyright__rightoffirstpublication  a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work
  subtype:  #land_tenure__tenure  the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
     subtype:  #copyhold  a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services
     subtype:  #freehold  tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
     subtype:  #villeinage  tenure by which a villein held land

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