Note 184 — Chapter X · LEGAL RIGHTS.

This division of rights into rights (stricto sensu), liberties, and powers, is not intended to be exhaustive. These are the most important kinds of advantages conferred by the law, but they are not the only kinds. Thus, the term right is sometimes used to mean an immunity from the legal power of some other person. The right of a peer to be tried by his peers, for example, is neither a right in the strict sense, nor a liberty, nor a power. It is an exemption from trial by jury—an immunity from the power of the ordinary criminal courts.