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RIGHT TO DIE
The right of a dying person to refuse life saving and prolonging medical treatment when there is no reasonable chance for recovery. See also a living will and health care proxy. … [Read more...] about RIGHT TO DIE
RIGHT PATENT
An obsolete writ, which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate; as tenant in tall, tenant in frank marriage, or tenant for life. … [Read more...] about RIGHT PATENT
RIGHT TO WORK
Some states have laws that prohibit making paying union dues a requirement to be satisfied before employment. … [Read more...] about RIGHT TO WORK
RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP
Where the surviving owners of joint property acquire the property owned by a deceased joint tenant. The property owned by the deceased joint tenant does not pass to the decedent's estate. This is also known as a Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship. See joint tenancy. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP