Definition of Right of re-entry

1. Noun. The legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with).

Generic synonyms: Legal Right
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Of Re-entry

right lumbar lymph nodes
right lung segments
right lymphatic duct
right main bronchus
right margin of heart
right middle lobe syndrome
right now
right of counsel
right of election
right of entry
right of first publication
right of first refusal
right of offset
right of privacy
right of public access to the wilderness
right of re-entry (current term)
right of reentry
right of search
right of sepulchre
right of ways
right on
right one
right or left lateral decubitus film
right ovarian vein
right ovarian vein syndrome
right parasternal impulses
right part of diaphragmatic surface of liver
right pulmonary artery
right sagittal fissure

Literary usage of Right of re-entry

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

1. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Who may reserve Right of Re-entry. — A power of reentry, like a condition, ... A right of re-entry may be effectually given upon breach of covenants, ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"404, 67 NW 221, it was further held that 'the right of re-entry cannot exist as an independent condition, but only as an incident to an estate or interest ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Common Pleas and by John Bayly Moore, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1823)
"It is manifest, that when she meant that any other fact or circumstance should accompany that non-payment, before the right of re-entry should be given, ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas, and by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, William John Broderip, Peregrine Bingham (1821)
"JERSEY. payment of rent; but it is, in truth, a right of re-entry for a different thing, which may never exist, notwithstanding there is a default of ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Wills: Embracing Execution, Interpretation and by John E. Alexander (1917)
"As to the right of re-entry, the rule is often laid down that, in order to be devisable, it must be a present right existing at the death of the testator, ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Exchequer: From by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, George Price, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1821)
"But, in truth, the reserved right of re-entry which is now in question (whether it is to be deemed reasonable or unreasonable), is not a right of re-entry ..."

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