Definition of Right of privacy

1. Noun. A legal right (not explicitly provided in the United States Constitution) to be left alone; the right to live life free from unwarranted publicity.

Generic synonyms: Legal Right
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Of Privacy

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right lobe of liver
right lumbar lymph nodes
right lung segments
right lymphatic duct
right main bronchus
right margin of heart
right middle lobe syndrome
right now
right of counsel
right of election
right of entry
right of first publication
right of first refusal
right of offset
right of privacy (current term)
right of public access to the wilderness
right of re-entry
right of reentry
right of search
right of sepulchre
right of ways
right on
right one
right or left lateral decubitus film
right ovarian vein
right ovarian vein syndrome
right parasternal impulses
right part of diaphragmatic surface of liver

Literary usage of Right of privacy

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1905)
"son to be secure from Invasion by the public Into matters of a private nature, which can only be properly termed his right of privacy. The right of privacy, ..."

2. Handbook of the Law of Torts by Heman Gerald Chapin (1917)
"CHAPTER IX THE right of privacy 67. Whether and to what extent the law will recognize the existence of a so-called "right of privacy" is not clear. ..."

3. Journal of Social Science by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Isaac Franklin Russell, Frederick Stanley Root, American Social Science Association (1903)
"T. THE right of privacy AND ITS RELATION TO THE LAW OF LIBEL. BY ELBRIDGE L. ADAMS, ESQ., OF ROCHESTER, NY In Scribner's Magazine for July, 1890, ..."

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