Meaning of traditional right | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
2. A right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.

Examples

“Having paved the way for viewing the state provision of welfare in terms of providing for people's basic needs, Raymond Plant still faced one difficult opponent: Maurice Cranston, who maintained that there is a crucial difference of nature between traditional rights and social ones.”

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