Sentence examples for ancient lights from inspiring English sources

The third series, called Ancient Lights, was introduced last month.

Ancient lights, in English property law, the right of a building or house owner to the light received from and through his windows.

Kwartler's goal is to inspire an ordinance along the lines of the Japanese Nisshoken, or Right to Sunshine law, or England's Law of Ancient Lights.

In Britain, the rather romantically named "Ancient Lights" ruling – from 1832 - stipulates that a window that has had access to sunlight for 20 years is entitled to go on receiving it – or at least some of it.

At one stage, signs reading "Ancient Lights" were fixed below windows in vulnerable areas of London, such as back alleys of Chinatown or Clerkenwell, to deter potentially light-blocking developments close by (is that what they mean by daylight robbery?).

In New York, they care about protecting light and air in the streets and parks". England has a Law of Ancient Lights, a common-law doctrine that guarantees a homeowner the right to light if he or she has had access to it for 20 years.

Ancient light.

And now comes "Ancient Light," a weeper.

(And that's only from "Ancient Light").

John Banville's Ancient Light is published by Viking.

Ancient Light has exactly that deeply creative, resonant unevenness".