Law Dictionary Definitions

right of support.Property. 1. A landowner’s right to have the land supported by adjacent land and by the underlying earth. [Cases: Adjoining Landowners 2. C.J.S. Adjoining Landowners §§ 9–10, 14.] 2. A servitude giving the owner of a house the right to rest timber on the walls of a neighboring house. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of suit.A person’s right to seek redress in a court. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of subrogation.1.SUBROGATION. 2.EQUITY OF SUBROGATION. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of search.Int’l law. The right to stop, visit, and examine vessels on the high seas to discover whether they or the goods they carry are liable to capture; esp., a belligerent state’s right to stop any merchant vessel of a neutral state on the high seas and to search as reasonably necessary to determine…

right of revolution.The inherent right of a people to cast out their rulers, change their polity, or effect radical reforms in their system of government or institutions, by force or general uprising, when the legal and constitutional methods of making such changes have proved inadequate or are so obstructed as to be unavailable. [Blacks Law…

right of retention.See RETENTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of retainer.A trustee’s power to withhold trust funds or property from distribution, exercisable when the beneficiary owes money to the trust. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of rescission.See RIGHT TO RESCIND. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of reproduction.See REPRODUCTION RIGHT. [Blacks Law 8th]

right of relief.Scots law. See EQUITY OF SUBROGATION. [Blacks Law 8th]