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property right

n. the right of ownership

Usage examples of "property right".

That part of the story was almost nonnews, except for a bite that brought the tabloids into play: Roger McKennah owned a piece of property right next to the building she'd lived in, the one that had burned.

It is precisely because slavery is protected by law as an inviolate property right that we face difficult problems when dealing with it.

Then he took an option on some property out at Palm Springs, peddled the property, made a neat profit on the deal, picked up more property and within a few years was buying and selling property right and left.

Indeed, I am not sure that he did not recognize that the dog itself had a certain property right in howling.