It is common, in most Dictionaries, to consider the word Sterling as referring only to that authorized coin, originally manufactured by the Flemings or Easterlings, whose name it has made immortal.
They kept themselves ready to take further advantage of the necessities of their rulers and it was not long before they had secured political as well as legal rights.
The first of these provisions serves to show very well how early in the history of English jurisprudence a thoroughgoing respect for woman's legal rights began to have a place.
In relation to him all in the household were destitute of legal rights--the wife and the child no less than the bullock or the slave.
In the British and French colonies and the American Slave States the negro slaves had no legal rights of property in things real or personal.
Would such cant about "legal rights" be heeded where reason and justice held sway, and where law, based upon fundamental morality, received homage?
None of the children of the most powerful Duke or Lord has, during his father's life, any civil or legal rights or privileges above that of the poorest and most obscure native-born day laborer in Great Britain.
But they are not set by men as political superiors, nor by men as private persons, in pursuance of legal rights; in this respect they differ from positive laws, they are not clothed with legal sanctions.
Under the influence of this theory jurists worked out a scheme of "legal rights" that effectively secures almost the whole field of individual interests of personality and individual interests of substance.
In modern times, thinking, whether he knows it or not, in terms of natural rights and by derivation of legal rights, the analytical jurist speaks of rights in personam.
Roman law acknowledged nolegal rights on the part of slaves[196].
Of any inferiority on the part of women he says nothing, nor does be concern himself with giving any directions about their social or legal rights.
They began to identify the national idea exclusively with a system of legal rights; and it became from their point of view a violation of national good faith even to criticise any rights enjoyed under the Constitution.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "legal rights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
