Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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no-right, n.

The absence of right against another in some particular respect, ( A no-right is the correlative of a privilege. - Also termed liability. "A says to B, 'If you will agree to pay me $100 for this horse you may have him and you may indicate your agreement by taking. him.' This is a physical fact, called an offer, consisting of certain muscular acts of A having certain physical results in B. The legal relations immediately following are (in part) as follows: B now has the privilege of taking the horse and A has no-right that he shall not . . . . " William R. Anson, Principles of the Law of Contract 321 (Arthur L. Corbin ed., 3d Am. ed. 1919).