Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) The power, granted by the government to persons, to allow or disallow others from taking certain actions (through legal force)
WordNet
n. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite]
Wikipedia
In Anglo-Saxon law, an exclusive right is a de facto, non-tangible prerogative existing in law (that is, the power or, in a wider sense, right) to perform an action or acquire a benefit and to permit or deny others the right to perform the same action or to acquire the same benefit. A "prerogative" is in effect an exclusive right. The term is restricted for use for official state or sovereign (i.e., constitutional) powers. Exclusive rights are a form of monopoly.
Exclusive rights can be established by law or by contractual obligation, but the scope of enforceability will depend upon the extent to which others are bound by the instrument establishing the exclusive right; thus in the case of contractual rights, only persons that are parties to a contract will be affected by the exclusivity.
Exclusive rights may be granted in property law, copyright law, patent law, in relation to public utilities, or, in some jurisdictions, in other sui generis legislation. Many scholars argue that such rights form the basis for the concepts of property and ownership.
Privately granted rights, created by contract, may occasionally appear very similar to exclusive rights, but are only enforceable against the grantee, and not the world at large.
Usage examples of "exclusive right".
But the reason that there are no theories of repression in the exclusive Right-Hand path is that there is no consciousness in the Right-Hand dimension (no interiors), and thus there is nothing to institute the repression in the first place (there is no interior repression because there are no interiors, period).
If all men are equal, where is our exclusive right to honors and to power?
The American company was to have the exclusive right of supplying the Russian posts with goods and necessaries, receiving peltries in payment at stated prices.
While Western drug companies have long argued that Asian rain forest plants are theirs for the taking without paying royalties, Bristol-Myers obtained from Congress the exclusive right to harvest yew trees on US government lands, about the only place it grows on the planet.
But it allowed the Company to retain the exclusive right to trade with British India&mdash.
But it allowed the Company to retain the exclusive right to trade with British India—.
In less than three months they were informed of the maxims of the new administration, by a singular edict, which established the exclusive right of the treasury over the spoils of Rufinus.
Books could not be printed in the colony because the king had granted the exclusive right to sell books to a publisher in Seville.
He would be given the exclusive right, presumably, of condemning his daughter to death.