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Examples of property right in a Sentence
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On the other side of the fight was Roberto Hagemann, a wealthy Chilean industrialist who had spent years acquiring property rights from 200 local families to assemble a 325,000-acre (or roughly 500 square mile) property.
—David Gelles, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2024
The Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento hailed the ruling as a significant victory for property rights.
—David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024
And tax records, the only other evidence of West Bank property rights, are not accepted by Israeli authorities.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
When Mariam’s maternal grandfather passes, his brother tries to manipulate them into signing over their apartment to him, a common occurrence in Pakistan, where women’s property rights are fragile.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
The Volunteer State is just one of three states where name, photographs and likeness are considered a property right rather than a right of publicity.
—Kimberlee Kruesi, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024
Jason Kempin/Getty Images The Volunteer State is just one of three states where name, photographs and likeness are considered a property right rather than a right of publicity.
—CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
The Delaware ruling is a blow, as several of the other cases made similar arguments about how the program violates drugmakers’ constitutional property rights.
—Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 1 Mar. 2024
Two sides of this property actually touch the water, with the owner’s property rights extending a short distance into the lake.
—James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1848, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near property right
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“Property right.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/property%20right. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Legal Definition
property right
noun1
: a right or interest in or involving property (as real property)
a conflict between environmental regulations and property rights
2
: property interest at interest 3b
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