RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE

By the acts 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 15, and 5 & 6 Vict c. 45, the author of a play, opera, or mtfsical composition, or his assignee, has the sole right of representing or causing it to be represented in public at any place in the British dominions during the same period as the copyright in the work exists. The right is distinct from the copyright, and requires to be separately … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION AND PERFORMANCE

See per stirpes. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF REPRESENTATION

In Scotch law. The right of a cautioner (surety) to demand reimbursement from the principal debtor when he has been compelled to pay the debt 1 Bell, Comm. 847. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF RELIEF

The right to disincumber property or to free it from a claim or lien; specifically, the right (granted by statute only) to free property from the incumbrance of a foreclosure or other judicial sale, or to recover the title passing thereby, by paying what is due, with interest, costs, etc. Not to be confounded with the "equity of redemption," which exists independently of … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF REDEMPTION

The mere right of property in land; the abstract right which remains to the owner after he has lost the right of possession, and to recover which the writ of right was given. United with possession, and the right of possession, this right constitutes a complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments. 2 BL Comm. 197. … [Read more...] about RIGHT OF PROPERTY