Legal Theory and Concepts
Introductory
No-Right
The correlative position of another person's privilege: a person with a no-right lacks a claim that the privileged actor act otherwise.
Why It Matters
No-right is useful because it marks the absence of an enforceable claim, not the absence of all legal relevance. It helps distinguish disappointment, economic loss, or exposure to competition from a legal wrong.
Selected Literature
A short list of directly relevant archive entries.
1913
Introductory
Some Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
Yale Law Journal
1917
Introductory
Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning
Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld
Yale Law Journal
Related Cases
1707
Foundations of Law and Economics
Keeble v. Hickeringill
11 East 574, 103 Eng. Rep. 1127 (K.B. 1707)
Property protection, malicious interference, and incentives to make productive use of land.
1910
Foundations of Law and Economics
Vincent v. Lake Erie Transportation Co.
109 Minn. 456, 124 N.W. 221 (1910)
Private necessity, compensation, and liability for intentional emergency use of another's property.
1963
Financial Law
United States v. Philadelphia National Bank
374 U.S. 321 (1963)
Application of federal antitrust law to bank mergers and market-concentration analysis.
1978
Financial Law
Marquette National Bank v. First of Omaha Service Corp.
439 U.S. 299 (1978)
National bank interest-rate exportation, state usury limits, and interstate consumer-credit competition.