Word info

real right

Noun

Meaning

real right (plural real rights)

(law) ius in re, a right attached to a thing or property, as ownership, usufruct, servitude, etc (as opposed to a personal right).

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Two things made The Dice of the Gods, another play about drugs, seem much better than it had any real right to seem. One was that Morphia had come first, and once you had seen Morphia, nothing seemd so very terrible to you. p. 375. Dorothy Parker

His poetry, as a whole, is more nearly the real right thing than any of the poetry of a somewhat older generation than mine except Mr. Yeats's. Harold Monro

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