Sentence examples for equitable rights from inspiring English sources

activities violating legal or equitable rights which extend beyond the life of the author.

She says that, increasingly, civil society is acting as the bridge between governments and communities, and she measures her success in the number of people she manages to engage in fighting for equitable rights and distribution of resources.

Instead, this court, Inc. contends, must step in and ensure that the special equitable rights of controlling stockholders are vindicated by requiring International to obtain stockholder approval even if the DGCL does not require it.

Expressly applying to suits in equity as well as at law, the amendment necessarily embraces demands for the enforcement of equitable rights and the prosecution of equitable remedies when these are asserted and prosecuted by an individual against a state.

except as provided in paragraph (11)(D), that shall not affect any legal or equitable rights or remedies available to any copyright owner or songwriter concerning ownership of, and entitlement to royalties for, a musical work.

"Although the legal title to the whole fund no doubt is in the State, the [contingent fee attorneys] have equitable rights to that portion of the same which represents their fee.

The question, therefore, is narrowed to the single inquiry of the equitable right of the complainants to enjoin the petitioners against bringing any such suits at all.

Finally, International contends that Inc. has no equitable right as a controlling stockholder to vote on the Telegraph sale if § 271's vote requirement is found not to apply.

By an intervening petition in the bankruptcy proceeding the complainant voluntarily submitted its asserted equitable right to the court of bankruptcy for determination, and the matter is now pending before the referee.

Inc. argues that an equitable right to vote should be recognized here because the International board majority is rushing to sell the Telegraph Group during an unusual period in which Inc. is inhibited from wielding the full power that usually comes with controlling 68% of the vote.

And notwithstanding the general rule, that, with respect to equitable right, qui prior est tempore potior est jure, it seems probable that equity would prefer a subsequent purchaser, who had given a proper notice to the trustee, to a prior purchaser, who had neglected to do so.