Suchna Ray, Andaman Law College
INTRODUCTION
The term “Legal right” has so many meanings which include: A claim recognized and delimited by law for the purpose of securing it. The interest in the claims which are protected by sanctions established by law and infringement of which one can claim the state to provide damages for it. In common language legal right can be defined as a set of actions permitted by law. These are the rights which are protected and recognized by law. Legal rights are, clearly, rights which exist under the rules of legal systems or by virtue of decisions of suitably authoritative bodies within them. Legislatures having the legal right to pass laws, of judges to decide cases, of private individuals to make wills and contract as well as the constitution to provide legal rights to the citizens against the state itself. But in Roman law, there is no terminology to clearly separate rights from duties. The conceptualization of legal rights of important writers is hard to ascertain because every writer has their own way of approach towards it.
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