Sentence examples for right of purchase from inspiring English sources

It may be that some people thought the number became theirs by right of purchase.

"The long, curling eyelashes may not be hers, except by right of purchase".

Since 1950 the academy has asked all Oscar recipients to sign an agreement stipulating that should the owner ever offer the Oscar for sale, the academy has the first right of purchase, at the nominal cost of $1.

But in no case was such right of purchase to exist or be exercised unless due notice thereof was given one year before the expiration of the period aforesaid or either of them.

That means that the whole edifice of culture and politics rested on the labour of men and women who by "right" of purchase or conquest had become mere things, mere domestic, agricultural, or mining equipment, and whose presence in Classical Attica rose into the tens of thousands.

Then the area was considered to have been captured, and although the North West Company continued to hold the post by right of purchase, the land in its vicinity reverted to the United States in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Ghent, the Ontario being sent out to complete the formalities.

This was the exclusive right of purchasing such lands as the natives were willing to sell.

Frequent mentions of individual ownership, references to crown lands, numerous land grants to religious and secular grantees in the post-Gupta period, and detailed discussion in legal sources of the rights of purchase, bequest, and sale of land all clearly indicate that private ownership of land existed.

Federal law requires states to repay the Government for a right-of-way purchased for a highway project that is abandoned, unless the right-of-way is used for specified purposes.

The final environmental clearance was granted in April 2013 to allow the project to start right-of-way purchases and construction.

This would increase the overall project cost by $215 million and cause "multiple disruptions to adjacent communities" as building a parallel rail line would involve construction costs, right-of-way purchases and the complete rebuilding of all road intersections along the proposed line.