no-rightn.
/ˈnəʊrʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈnoʊˈraɪt/ Law.
An obligation not to prevent the exercise of a privilege.
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1913 W. N. Hohfeld in Yale Law Jrnl. 23 32 As indicated in the above scheme of jural relations, a privilege is the opposite of a duty, and the correlative of a ‘no-right’.
1923 W. N. Hohfeld Fund. Legal Conceptions i. 39 The correlative of X's right that Y shall not enter on the land is Y's duty not to enter; but the correlative of X's privilege of entering himself is manifestly Y's ‘no-right’ that X shall not enter.
1938 Harvard Law Rev. 51 1150 The phrase ‘no right’ was subjected to a great deal of critical and destructive comment. ‘A “no-right”’, one critic once declared, ‘might be an elephant.’
1989 Polit. Theory 17 72 While the juridical ‘opposite’ of a right is a ‘no-right’, its juridical ‘correlate’ is a ‘duty’ attaching to some third person to respect that right.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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