Definition of In her own right

1. Adverb. By reason of one's own ability or ownership etc.. "An excellent novel in its own right"


Lexicographical Neighbors of In Her Own Right

in good order
in good part
in good spirits
in good stead
in good taste(p)
in good time
in great confusion
in gross
in hand
in hand(p)
in harmony
in haste
in heat
in heaven's name
in height(p)
in her own right (current term)
in her right mind(p)
in hiding
in high dudgeon
in high spirits
in his own right
in his right mind(p)
in hospital
in hot pursuit
in house
in infinite
in infinitum
in irons
in its infancy
in its own right

Literary usage of In her own right

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"So far as regards her legal control over her separate estate, she is considered as unmarried and as existing in her own right; and the senseless fiction of ..."

2. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... either in her own right or in autre droit, he will be non-suited ; for though " in general the. non-joinder of the party as co-plaintiff in an action ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Pleading and on the Parties to Actions and the Forms by Joseph Chitty (1809)
"... alone when the wife ought to join, either in her own right or in outre droit, he will be nonsuited ; for though in general the non.joinder of plaintiffs ..."

4. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1836)
"Fox tacitly concurred in this example; though he might have replied, that Anne reigned in her own right, not as a queen consort. ..."

5. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"Whenever any married woman shall be entitled to hold property in her own right and to her separate use, she may make contracts, may sue and be ми-.i in her ..."

6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Appellants contend, but not very strenuously, that plaintiff should not be allowed to assert, as plaintiff in the same suit, one claim in her own right, ..."

7. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
"So far as regards her legal control over her separate estate, she is considered as unmarried and as existing in her own right; and the senseless fiction of ..."

8. A Treatise on Pleading, and Parties to Actions, with Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening, John A. Dunlap, Edward Duncan Ingraham, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"... either in her own right or in autre droit, he will be non-suited ; for though " in general the. non-joinder of the party as co-plaintiff in an action ..."

9. A Practical Treatise on Pleading and on the Parties to Actions and the Forms by Joseph Chitty (1809)
"... alone when the wife ought to join, either in her own right or in outre droit, he will be nonsuited ; for though in general the non.joinder of plaintiffs ..."

10. Posthumous Memoirs of His Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1836)
"Fox tacitly concurred in this example; though he might have replied, that Anne reigned in her own right, not as a queen consort. ..."

11. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"Whenever any married woman shall be entitled to hold property in her own right and to her separate use, she may make contracts, may sue and be ми-.i in her ..."

12. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"Appellants contend, but not very strenuously, that plaintiff should not be allowed to assert, as plaintiff in the same suit, one claim in her own right, ..."

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