(law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)
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Right of way
the right of one vehicle or vessel to take precedence over another
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a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets)
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law, Sociology, Inequality and stratification.(law) immediate and direct physical control over property
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) having the power and intention to have and control property but without direct control or actual presence upon it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) possession for which criminal sanctions are provided because the property may not lawfully be possessed or may not be possessed…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology.(law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation
Used in the same subject area: Law, General law, Sociology.(law) any property that is considered by law or custom as inseparable from an inheritance is inherited with that inheritance
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate secured to a prospective wife as a marriage settlement in lieu of a dower
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.(law) an estate whose duration is limited to the life of the person holding it
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
Used in the same subject area: Law, Property law, General law.a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it; "he signe…
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The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.One who has a claim to precedence; a superior, as in merit, social standing, etc.; -- usually in the plural.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose esta…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; as, the white horse had the lead; a lead of a boat's length, or of half…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.To exceed in rank; hence, to take precedence of.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: right, vehicle, vessel, take, precedence.
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