Note 187 — Chapter X · LEGAL RIGHTS.

Of the three classes of rights or legal interests which we have considered, the first, consisting of those which are the correlative of duties, are by far the most important. So predominant are they, indeed, that we may regard them as constituting the principal subject-matter of the law, while the others are merely accessory. In future, therefore, we shall use the term right in this narrow and specific sense, except when the context indicates a different usage; and we shall commonly speak of the other forms of rights by their specific designations.