Rights vs Duties

Rights

• The most basic definition of rights suggests these are “principles possessed by individuals or groups that always correspond with reciprocal duties from other individuals or groups”.
• Supreme Court of India also interprets the definition of rights in case of State of Rajasthan V Union of India, 1977 as: “In the strict sense, legal rights are correlatives of legal duties and are defined as interests whom the law protects by imposing corresponding duties on others. But in a generic sense, the word ‘right’ is used to mean immunity from the legal power of another, immunity is an exemption from the ....