legal right

American  

[lee-guhl rahyt] / ˈli gəl ˈraɪt /

noun

plural

legal rights

1. a right, which is granted to a person through the legal system or legal principles associated with a given culture or state.

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Example Sentences

Both unions now have the legal right to call members out on strike or call other action, such as a work to rule.

From BBC

More recently, federal banking agencies stated that for a bank to hold tokenized assets as real assets on their balance sheets, the tokenized assets must grant investors the same legal rights as the original security.

From The Wall Street Journal

They also have the legal right to all the support laid out in that plan.

From BBC

Richardson has experience of unwanted predator attention, which she has waived her legal right to anonymity to share.

From BBC

They argued that people had the legal right to own handguns, that shooting was a legitimate sport no different from any other, that shooting incidents were rare and almost all gun owners were responsible.

From BBC