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Example sentences for "legal right"

  • An Omaha editor and two Omaha lawyers determined to test the question whether the Government had a legal right to do it.

  • The Cheyennes were pursued and slain for venturing to leave this very reservation, which, it appears, is not their reservation at all, and they have no legal right to it.

  • And if the slave trader had no legal right of property in his slave, he could transfer no legal right of property to a purchaser in the colonies.

  • According to her letters still in existence, the husband took possession of her funds in bank, drew all the money due to her from her publishers and forbade them to pay her any more from the sale of her books, as he had a legal right to do.

  • But if something now has a legal right to us, and can enforce its proprietorship, they've been warned off.

  • The name of Robert is not mentioned among those included in this judgment, and later Henry justifies his conduct toward his brother on the ground of political necessity, not of legal right.

  • John had given them now a legal right of appeal to his suzerain and a moral justification of rebellion.

  • For, according to the general constitutional and administrative ideas of justice, it is the King who releases his Ministers; they have no legal right to retire of themselves.

  • Obedick, it was held that workmen had "no legal right" to persuade or induce other workmen to quit, or not to accept, employment.

  • By means of it, trade unionists have been prohibited under severe penalties from doing what they had a legal right to do, and have been specifically directed to do what they had a legal right not to do.

  • Moreover, Harry would hardly have exercised such a legal right, had he possessed it, without the strongest provocation.

  • In the first place, he had no legal right, under the circumstances, to go as close to murder as it might be for him to throw the rock at the rascal's head.

  • Mr. Bascomb, even if I were inclined to forfeit the contract I would have no legal right to do so without the approval of my partner, Hazelton.

  • So, too, in the monarchical states of the Gallas homicides enjoy a legal right of asylum if they have succeeded in taking refuge in a hut near the burial-place of the king.

  • The "right of property," it is true, is generally used as a term for a legal right.

  • In most of the British colonies and American Slave States, on the other hand, the slave had no legal right to obtain a change of master when cruel treatment made it necessary for his relief or preservation.

  • That only such classes of citizens as have had special legislative guarantee have a legal right to vote.

  • I had a poll list; I was checking parties that I supposed had a legal right to vote.

  • That maxim would have applied to this case, if the defendant had voted, knowing that she had no legal right to vote; without knowing that the law had made the act of knowingly voting without a right, a crime.

  • Now, there is a great difference between a legal right and a dispensation, or something that is tolerated or permitted.

  • The right of conquest so cruelly exercised by the Cromwellians is in this year of grace a legal right; and its exercise is a mere question of expediency and discretion.

  • He loses no legal right by being excluded.

  • My friend and I have both agreed that we will continue the charge of her until she is claimed by someone who is in a position to do so openly--someone, in short, who has a legal right.

  • Someone might come forward to-morrow with a legal right to claim you, and we should be helpless.

  • The child remains with us until she is claimed by one who has a legal right, and is not afraid to invoke the law.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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