S: (n) right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature) "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
S: (n) access (the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership))
S: (n) advowson (the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice)
S: (n) cabotage (the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders)
S: (n) claim, title (an informal right to something) "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame"
S: (n) due (that which is deserved or owed) "give the devil his due"
S: (n) door (anything providing a means of access (or escape)) "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"
S: (n) open door (freedom of access) "he maintained an open door for all employees"
S: (n) floor (the parliamentary right to address an assembly) "the chairman granted him the floor"
S: (n) grant (a right or privilege that has been granted)
S: (n) human right ((law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law))
S: (n) civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)
S: (n) civil liberty (fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference)
S: (n) habeas corpus (the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment)
S: (n) freedom of assembly (the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution)
S: (n) equal protection of the laws (a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment)
S: (n) freedom from discrimination (immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States)
S: (n) equal opportunity (the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin)
S: (n) compulsory process (the right of a defendant to have a court use its subpoena power to compel the appearance of material witnesses before the court)
S: (n) conjugal right (the right of married persons to the enjoyment of association and sympathy and confidence and domestic happiness and the comfort of living together and eating meals at the same table and profiting from joint property right and the intimacies of domestic relations)
S: (n) title, claim (an established or recognized right) "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim"
S: (n) entitlement (right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits)) "entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget"
S: (n) eminent domain (the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United States requires that just compensation be made)
S: (n) franchise, enfranchisement (a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote))
S: (n) right to vote, vote, suffrage (a legal right guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the US Constitution; guaranteed to women by the 19th amendment) "American women got the vote in 1920"
S: (n) universal suffrage (suffrage for all adults who are not disqualified by the laws of the country)
S: (n) patent right (the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention)
S: (n) right of election (in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute)
S: (n) right of entry (the legal right to take possession of real estate in a peaceable manner)
S: (n) right of re-entry (the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with))
S: (n) right of offset ((banking) the legal right of a bank to seize deposited funds to cover a loan that is in default)
S: (n) right of privacy (a legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity)
S: (n) seat (the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body) "he was elected to a seat in the Senate"
S: (n) use, enjoyment ((law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property) "we were given the use of his boat"
S: (n) fair use (the conditions under which you can use material that is copyrighted by someone else without paying royalties)
S: (n) usufruct (a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way)
S: (n) visitation right (the right granted by a court to a parent (or other relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit the child on a regular basis)
S: (n) tenure, land tenure (the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands)
S: (n) copyhold (a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services)
S: (n) freehold (tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life)
S: (n) preemptive right (the right granting to shareholders the first opportunity to buy a new issue of stock; provides protection against dilution of the shareholder's ownership interest)
S: (n) subscription right (the right of a shareholder in a company to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public)
S: (n) prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right (a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)) "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"
S: (n) easement ((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))
S: (n) public easement (any easement enjoyed by the public in general (as the public's right to use public streets))
S: (n) right of way (the privilege of someone to pass over land belonging to someone else)
S: (n) privilege of the floor (the right to be admitted onto the floor of a legislative assembly while it is in session)
S: (n) privilege ((law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship)
S: (n) physician-patient privilege (the right of a physician to refuse to divulge confidential information from a patient without the consent of the patient)
S: (n) priest-penitent privilege (the right of a clergyman to refuse to divulge confidential information received from a person during confession or similar exchanges)
S: (n) representation (the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body)
S: (n) absolute (something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative) "no mortal being can influence the absolute"
S: (n) teacher (a personified abstraction that teaches) "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher"
S: (n) thing (a special abstraction) "a thing of the spirit"; "things of the heart"