The phrase "a substantial right" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal contexts to refer to a significant or important legal entitlement or privilege.
Example: "The court ruled that the defendant's actions violated a substantial right guaranteed by the constitution."
Alternatives: "an important right" or "a significant right".
Assuming there is a "substantial right," the inquiry remains whether the error "affects substantial rights" requiring reversal of a conviction.
Any assumption that once a "substantial right" is implicated it is inherently "affected" by any error begs the question raised by Rule 52(a).
The Court did not state that joinder is a "substantial right" and, for this reason, any error respecting joinder is reversible.
The Court then stated: "Necessarily where the accused is deprived of a substantial right by the action of the trial court, such action, having been properly objected to, is revisable on error". Ibid.
The right to impart instruction, harmless in itself or beneficial to those who receive it, is a substantial right of property,especially, where the services are rendered for compensation.
But since there is no claim that the son, Dennis Lane, took any part in Count 1 (the mail fraud regarding the 1979 El Toro Restaurant fire), I believe that his right not to be joined as a defendant in his father's trial for that felony was a "substantial right" that was adversely affected by the misjoinder.
The acquisition would have required a substantial rights issue.
Rangers, meanwhile, are considering a "substantial" rights issue to reduce their debt after Murray admitted the club might be in trouble with the bank if his trading company did not make a profit.
Murray, who has already invested £40m in the club, including the £6.5m he paid to buy Rangers 16 years ago, said: "We will have to do a substantial rights issue, of which I would subscribe for my fair share.
It says a qualifying holder's transfer of all substantial rights to a patent is long term capital gain.
In a typical case involving "all substantial rights," the licensor or licensee is attempting to sue alone, and the court must decide whether they have standing.
