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The right of navigating or navigation; the right of commerce by ships or by sea. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 3.

I11 the civil law. The name of a servitude which consists in the right to build a projection, such as a balcony or gallery, from one’s house iu the open space belonging to one’s neighbor, but without resting on his house. Dig. 50, 10, 242; Id. 8, 2, 2; Mackeld. ltom. Law,

In Roman law. The right of death, or of putting to death. A right which a father anciently had over his children. Jus non habenti tute non paretur. One who has no right cannot be safely obeyed. Hob. 146. Jus non patitur ut idem bis solvatur. Law does not suffer that the same thing be twice paid.

The law of nations. That law which natural reason has established among all men is equally observed among all nations, and is called the “law of nations,” as being the law which all nations use. Inst 1, 2, 1; Dig. 1, 1, 9; 1 Bl. Comm. 43; 1 Kent, Comm. 7; Mackeld. Rom. Law,

A legal right In the civil law. A right which was enforceable in the ordinary course of law. 2 Bl. Comm. 328.

The right of the sword; the executory power of the law; the right, power, or prerogative of punishing for crime. 4 Bl. Comm. 177.

The right of a husband; especially the right which a husband acquires to his wife’s movable estate by virtue of the marriage. 1 Forb. Inst. pt. 1, p. 03.

The right to have a thing. The right to be put in actual possession of property. Lewin, Trusts, 5S5.

In old English law. Mere or bare right; the mere right of property in lands, without either possession or even the right of possession. 2 Bl. Comm. 197; Bract, fol. 23.

In the civil and old English law. The right of drawing water. Fleta, lib. 4, c. 27,