Definition of Acquired Rights

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Acquired rights
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    Those Which a man does not naturally enjoy, but which are owing to his own procurement, as sovereignty or the right of commanding or the right of property. Borden v. State, 11 Ark. 519, 527, 44 Am. Dec. 217.