Definition of Right to liberty

1. Noun. The right to be free.

Generic synonyms: Human Right

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right To Liberty

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right to liberty (current term)
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Literary usage of Right to liberty

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

1. Lectures on jurisprudence or the philosophy of positive law by John Austin (1885)
"Right to Perhaps, however, by the right to liberty he does not mean what?' the mere right to the enjoyment and disposition of one's person ..."

2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"In these constitutional provisions are found the guaranties to the citizen of his right to liberty, his right to the pursuit of happiness, ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"If not, then the right to liberty is any right to do or forbear, which is not comprehended by any other specified right whatever. For example, the right to ..."

4. The Underlying Principles of Modern Legislation by William Jethro Brown (1920)
"THE right to liberty. I shall discuss at a later stage some aspects of the right to ... Prima facie, if the right to liberty is conditional upon the social ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"right to liberty. "right to liberty," as guarantied In Const, art. 1, § 6, providing that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law, ..."

6. Lectures on Jurisprudence: Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1873)
"If not, then the right to liberty is any right to do or forbear, which is not comprehended by any other specified right whatever. For example, the right to ..."

7. Cotton is King, and Pro-slavery Arguments: Comprising the Writings of by David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge (1860)
"Now, if a man be " confined, and compelled " to work in his confinement, what becomes of his "inalienable right to liberty?" We think there must be a slight ..."

8. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1881)
"By the term ' metaphysic,' he alludes to the Knights freeing the criminals on the ground of the abstract right to liberty, without regard to circumstances. ..."

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