traditional right

English

Noun

traditional right (plural traditional rights)

1. (law) A subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
2. (law) A right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.
   • 2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe, page 43:

     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.