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Definition: Legal Right |
Legal RightNoun1. A right based in law. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Legal Right |
| English words defined with "legal right": adoption ♦ civil right, civil rights, color of law, colour of law ♦ damage, deed, deed of conveyance, disabling, disqualifying ♦ elector, enjoyment, essential, ex gratia ♦ grievance ♦ inheriting, interest ♦ justice of the peace ♦ legal injury, licensing agreement, life tenant ♦ right of election, right of entry, right of privacy, right of re-entry, right of way, right to vote ♦ stake, substantive, suffrage ♦ title, title deed ♦ unratified, use, usufruct ♦ vote, voter ♦ wrong. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "legal right": apex law ♦ CAPTIVE CUSTOMER, constructive possession ♦ Development easement ♦ established right, established rights ♦ Juristic Act ♦ Limitation Period ♦ mining lease ♦ proprietary program ♦ right of petition ♦ vested right ♦ waiver of exemption. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | To withhold his commission, therefore, is an act deemed by the court not warranted by law, but violative of a vested legal right. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Syria | Women over the age of 18 have the legal right to travel without the permission of male relatives. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The manager protested that the Government had no legal right to decide who would manage the private station. (references) | |
China | Those inmates sentenced to a total of more than 5 years in reeducation-through-labor camps on separate occasions also may lose their legal right to return home. (references) | |
Economic History | Czech Rep | Workers in the Czech Republic have the legal right to form and join unions of their own choosing without prior authorization. (references) |
Romania | If the company is dissolved or liquidated, the land must be sold within one year of the company's closure and may be sold only to a buyer(s) with the legal right to purchase such assets. (references) | |
Human Rights | France | Wiretapping is recognized as a legal right of the Government. (references) |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | All union members, except most civil servants, have the legal right to strike. (references) |
UNITED KINGDOM | Unions have a legal right to appoint safety representatives where an employer has recognized their union. (references) | |
UKRAINE | In theory, workers have a legal right to remove themselves from dangerous work situations without jeopardizing continued employment. (references) | |
Political Rights | Chile | The approximately 1.2 million indigenous people have the legal right to participate freely in the political process, although relatively few are active politically. (references) |
Cuba | Citizens do not have the legal right to change their government or to advocate change, and the Government retaliates systematically against those who seek peaceful political change. (references) | |
Belarus | Electoral precincts throughout the country undermined the legal right of observers to observe the election counts by imposing the requirement that they stand several yards from the ballot counting. (references) | |
Women | Gambia | They have the option to divorce, but not a legal right to approve or be notified in advance of subsequent marriages. (references) |
Syria | Battered women have the legal right to seek redress in court, but few do so because of the social stigma attached to such action. (references) | |
Eritrea | Since independence, women have enjoyed a legal right to equal educational opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and legal sanctions against domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Indonesia | All organized workers except civil servants have the legal right to strike. (references) |
Costa Rica | Private sector unions have the legal right to engage in collective bargaining. (references) | |
Eritrea | Proclamation 8 provides workers with the legal right to form unions and to strike to protect their interests. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
legal right | 164 |
tenant legal right | 15 |
legal right and minors | 6 |
film legal right saling video | 4 |
legal right and self defense | 3 |
document legal right surrendering | 2 |
legal right way | 2 |
guardian legal right | 2 |
womens legal right | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "legal right"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | droit en common law. (various references) | ||||
German | rechtsanspruch (demand, inalienable right, legal claim, legal entitlement). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | egallay ightray | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-g-h-i-l-l-r-t" | |
-2 letters: grillage, litharge, thirlage. | |
-3 letters: alright, haggler, higgler, lathier, lighter, literal, relight, tallier, tillage. | |
-4 letters: aiglet, aigret, alight, aright, gaiter, gallet, garget, gargle, gather, gelati, giglet, giller, glaire, grille, haggle, hailer, halite, halter, hegari, hegira, higgle, hiller, lagger, lather, lethal, ligate, lither, raggle, regilt, retail, retial, rillet, tagger, tailer, taille, taller, telial, tergal, thaler. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 65 67 61 6C 52 69 67 68 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100101 01100111 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010010 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L e g a l   R i g h t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0065 0067 0061 006C 0052 0069 0067 0068 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)467173677825275737486 |
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