Note 14 — Chapter V · “RIGHT” AS A GESTURAL SIGN
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As a partial list of the significations included in this class, may be cited:
48. In the legal sense, that which justly accrues or falls to anyone, that which one may properly claim, one’s due, e. g., territory, estate, dominion.
49. Particular cases of the preceding: Right of eminent domain, Constitutional rights, Corporeal rights, Inchoate right of dower, Innominate rights, etc.
50. Idiomatic expressions: “To be in the right,” “To have the right,” “With right,” “By right or rights,” “Of right,” “To have due right,” etc.
51. Joint rights; a title or claim to something properly possessed by two or more persons.
52. A document substantiating a legally recognized claim or title.
53. Legally just or equitable treatment.
54. “Right drawn sword,” drawn in a just cause.
55. The person, party, or cause which is sustained in a controversy. (Compare Ex. 47, Class D.)
56. To do one right; to do one justice.
57. “Right money”; money paid as the condition or consideration of acquiring a “right” to the purchase of land.
58. The title or claim to the enjoyment of privileges or indemnities. (A relatively unemphatic use of the term “legal right.”)