Rights Flashcards
Means straight, not crooked or not distorted
Right
4 elements of rights
Subject
Object
Title
Term
Refers to a person who is vested with the moral power to do, to hold or to exact something as his hand
Subject of a right
Refers to the right which a person has the right
Object of a right
3 kinds of object of the right
Right to wit
Right to commit or omit
Right to demand something from others
Refers to the basis of a right demanded by the person who has the capacity to exercise such right
Title of a right
Refers to the person in whom is found the duty corresponding to the right
Term of a right
Source of right
Natural law
Human positive law
Kinds of right
- Natural rights
- Acquired rights
- Public rights
- Private rights
- Positive rights
- Negative rights
- Alienable rights
- Inalienable rights
- Perfect rights
- Imperfect rights
Are those which acquired since birth
Natural right
Are those which gain through experience and fulfillment of some conditions
Acquired rights
Are the right which posses of a perfect society such as church, and state
Public rights
Are rights which are posessed by an individual or by an imperfect society such as fraternal association, business enterprise
Private rights
Refers to those rights which confer upon the person the power to do certain things such as right to marry
Postive rights
Refers to those right which which do not confer upon the person who has a right to perform certain things such us right not to steal
Negative rights