shop right. Patents. An employer’s right to an irrevocable, nonassignable, nonexclusive, royalty-free license in an employee’s invention, if the employee conceived and developed the invention during the course of employment and used company funds and materials. • The term derives from the idea that the right belongs to the shop, not to the employee. Employment […]
cum rights. With rights. • A cum rights purchaser of stock is entitled to rights that have been declared but not distributed, such as the right to purchase additional shares at a stated price. — Also termed rights on.
A right entitling a person to have another refrain from doing an act that might harm the person entitled.
A covenant that binds the grantor to ensure the completeness, security, and continuance of the title transferred. • This covenant usu. includes the covenants for seisin, against encumbrances, for the right to convey, for quiet enjoyment, and of warranty. [Cases: Covenants 38–48, 62–67. C.J.S. Covenants §§ 14–24, 29, 46–47.]
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A property right that arose when the work was created, rather than when it was published. • Under the Copyright Act of 1976, which was effective on January 1, 1978, common-law copyright was largely abolished for works created after the statute’s effective date. But the statute retained the common law’s recognition that the property right
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squatter’s rights. The right to acquire title to real property by adverse possession, or by preemption of public lands. See ADVERSE POSSESSION.
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. A federal statute generally prohibiting sex discrimination and harassment by educational facilities that receive federal funds. • This term is often referred to simply as Title IX.20 USCA §§ 1681 et seq. [Cases: Civil Rights 1067. C.J.S. Civil Rights §§ 2, 7, 44, 49–53, 64, 86, 221.]
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Goodright. Hist. A name sometimes used as a fictitious plaintiff in an ejectment action. • “John Doe” was used more frequently. — Also termed Goodtitle. Cf. JOHN DOE.
Indian title. A right of occupancy that the federal government grants to an American Indian tribe based on the tribe’s immemorial possession of the area. • Congress does not recognize tribal ownership of the land, only possession. A tribe or nation must actually, exclusively, and continuously use the property to establish that it is the