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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

See RECTUS IN CURIA. … [Read more...] about RIGHT IN COURT

The right to pass. (A) Property Law: Typically an easement, the right to pass over or through the property of another. (B) Traffic Law: The right to proceed under the circumstances. A pedestrian rightfully in a crosswalk has the right of way over any motor vehicle. A vehicle in the at of making a turn has a right of way superior to a vehicle approaching the intersection. Law … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF WAY

The right to bring suit; a legal right to maintain an action, growing out of a given transaction or state of facts and based thereon. Hibbard v. Clark, 56 N. H. 155, 22 Am. Rep. 442; Webster v. County Com'rs, 63 Me. 29. By the old writers, "right of action" is commonly used to denote that a person has lost a right of entry, and has nothing but a right of action left Co. Litt … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF ACTION

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