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View definitions for legal right

legal right

noun as in easement

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One of the fathers, Ostap, claimed that his son, after spending over 90 days in the combat zone, had a legal right to take leave.

We have no legal right to ask you that question,’ but we can say, ‘Here are the parameters and the options.

Why continue to pay someone if you have the ability and legal right to grow in this state now?

He told the officer that he and his friends had a legal right to have their firearms.

The demise of privacy as a social norm is leading to the demise of privacy as a legal right.

Every one was armed with a petition, which he had a legal right to take to the House of Commons.

Many Americans have obtained mines in my country to which they have no legal right.

Let it be shown that the slave-owner has no legal right of property in his slaves.

A civil servant of the Republic had no legal right to sever himself from his engagements without permission.

Men ought sometimes to be reminded of their debts, though with modesty, not in the tone of one demanding a legal right.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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