- positive right
- An unqualified right-one which is not dependent upon, and which in fact does not admit of any exercise of, discretion. Chapman v Dorsey, 230 Minn 279, 41 NW2d 438, 16 ALR2d 1015.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
positive right
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