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Example sentences for "common right"

  • Common appendant," said the Elizabethan judges, "is of common right, and commences by operation of law and in favour of tillage.

  • They do not, however, exist as of common right, without proof of usage, but by the custom of the manor.

  • Christ is the federal or covenant head of his church, each member claiming an equal or common right to all his merits as a Saviour, Mediator, and Advocate.

  • By 'common,' is here meant that Christ is the federal head of all his saints; they have an equal or common right equally to participate in his merits.

  • It has the same meaning that is applied to a piece of land, to which many persons have an equal or common right; but which none but those, who have a right or title, can use.

  • Common,' as the head of his church, in whom all his people have an equal or common right.

  • A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

  • There is a common right, law of nature, or interest of the whole, which is more excellent, and so acknowledged to be by the agents themselves, than the right or interest of the parts only.

  • Mankind then must either be less just than the creature, or acknowledge also his common interest to be common right.

  • They will probably complain to your parliaments, that they are taxed by a body in which they have no representative, and that this is contrary to common right.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common 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:
    common carriers; common centre; common consent; common currency; common custom; common denominator; common fire; common fund; common ground; common interest; common knowledge; common measure; common origin; common property; common salt; common species; common time; common type; common water; commonly believed; commonly said; commonly supposed; eight inches; general rising; natural language; send forth