LEGAL RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does legal right mean? 

• LEGAL RIGHT (noun)
  The noun LEGAL RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. a right based in law

  Familiarity information: LEGAL RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEGAL RIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A right based in law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("legal right" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal right"):

right of entry (the legal right to take possession of real estate in a peaceable manner)

land tenure; tenure (the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands)

copyright; right of first publication (a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work)

visitation right (the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis)

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)

enjoyment; use ((law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property)

seat (the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body)

right of privacy (a legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity)

right of offset ((banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default)

right of re-entry (the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with))

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)

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)

patent right (the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention)

enfranchisement; franchise (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))

eminent domain (the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made)

claim; title (an established or recognized right)

pre-emption; preemption (the right of a government to seize or appropriate something (as property))

conjugal visitation; conjugal visitation right (the legal right in a prison for the inmate and spouse to have sexual intercourse)

conjugal right (the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations)

 Context examples 

A person who has physical possession or legal rights to something.

(Holder, NCI Thesaurus)

Then I have a legal right to inspect it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The legal right to practice dentistry.

(Dental License, NCI Thesaurus)

Particularly, the ethical principle or legal right that a physician or other health professional will hold secret all information relating to a patient, unless the patient gives consent permitting disclosure.

(Confidentiality, NCI Thesaurus)