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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