Definition of Own right

1. Noun. By title vested in yourself or by virtue of qualifications that you have achieved. "A fine opera in its own right"

Generic synonyms: Claim, Title

Lexicographical Neighbors of Own Right

owlishly
owlishness
owlishnesses
owlism
owllight
owllike
owls
owly
owly-eyed
owly eied
own
own(a)
own controls
own goal
own goals
own right (current term)
own up
ownability
ownable
ownage
owndom
owndoms
owne
owned
owner
owner-driver
owner-occupied
owner-occupier
owner-operator
ownerless

Literary usage of Own right

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Suit by TJ Ferrell, in his own right and as guardian of his minor children. Fannie M. Ferrell, his wife, and others, against С. Н. ..."

2. Leviathan ; Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes, Alfred Rayney Waller (1904)
"... of hindring another of the to lay dtw<na benefit of his own Right to the ... so much diminution of impediments to the use of his own Right originall. ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps (1822)
"(4) But if the plaintiff claim property in goods as executor or administrator, he must prove his title as such, though he sue in his own right; and it will ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"... in the absence of an elder brother, Giovan- francesco, and in 1600 he became a senator in his own right. He died at Florence on 18 Feb. 1612. ..."

5. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"Now in a writ of right the demandant CH. 228. grounds his action entirely on his own right, and he does not Art. 4. even allege ..."

6. Who's who by Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen (1897)
"PEERESSES IN THEIR own right (10) THE TITLE, RANK, FAMILY NAME, DATE OP CREATION, HEIR OP EACH PEERESS, AND AGE OF SUCH HEIR In this List C. stands for ..."

7. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ: Translated Out of by Robert M. Hartley, American Bible Society, Wightman family (1875)
"... when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Par above all principality, and power, and might, ..."

8. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Thomas Jodrell Phillips, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Singleton Copley Lyndhurst, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham (1847)
"... be recollected that in the Courts of common law which are governed by the statute, a Defendant is not allowed, even when defending in his own right, ..."

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