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An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc.
Beyond power; transcending authority; -- a phrase used frequently in relation to acts or enactments by corporations in excess of their chartered or statutory rights.
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asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.
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The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.
v. t.
To deprive of the rank or rights of a city.
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One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.
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The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.
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Of or pertaining to the bank of a river; as, riparian rights.
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One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
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A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
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Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
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To deprive, as a city, of a bishop; to deprive, as a clergyman, of episcopal dignity or rights.
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An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
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Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.
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To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
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One who enters upon another's land, or violates his rights.
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Manner of holding, in general; as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure.
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Inalienable; as, unalienable rights.
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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.
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The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.
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