property right

noun

1. a legal right to or in a particular property.

Word History and Origins

Origin of property right¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Some economists are uncomfortable about the entire idea of putting property rights about data, even when this is for the benefit of the user.

From MIT Technology Review

Their mobility and decision making was heavily restricted and they lacked basic reproductive and property rights.

From No Straight News

Short-term rental owners say renting out your home is a fundamental property right that helps families make ends meet, creates thousands of jobs and contributes millions of dollars in taxes and economic activity for the city.

From Voice of San Diego

Instead, they are channeling 19th century conservatives like Francis Parkman and William Graham Sumner, who believed that freedom is about protecting property rights—if need be, by obstructing democracy.

From Time

I do believe change needs to take place on some of the things like intellectual property rights.

From Time

I'm not going to sell the Ashley property right away, not without going up to look at it at least.

From Project Gutenberg

The blood kin guard their property right in the maiden as jealously as the man guards his property right in his wife.

From Project Gutenberg

The property right was established by the six-shooter, and honest men were forced to the wall.

From Project Gutenberg

No matter that despair had recently colored his mental vision; the sense of property right still functioned unimpaired.

From Project Gutenberg

The right to absolute ownership is in A, that is his property right.

From Project Gutenberg