Right

A right (권리/權利) is a legal, social, or ethical basis of entitlement and interest to enjoy individually or in group.

Rights are the fundamental normative rules about what is allowed of people or owed to people, according to some legal system, social convention, or ethical theory. Rights are of essential importance in such disciplines as law and ethics, especially theories of justice and deontology.

Rights are often considered fundamental to civilization, being regarded as established pillars of society and culture, and the history of social conflicts can be found in the history of each right and its development.

Key words
legal right, natural right, claim right, legal power, legal authority, legal title

Natural right v. Legal right
Traditionally certain rights were believed to derive from God or Nature. They are called "natural rights" (자연권/自然權) which are natural in the sense of "not artificial, not man-made", as in rights deriving from deontic logic, from human nature, or from the edicts of a god. They are universal; they apply to all people, and do not derive from the laws of any specific society. They exist necessarily, inhere in every individual, and can't be taken away.

For example, it has been argued that humans have a natural right to life. They're sometimes called moral rights or inalienable rights.

Legal rights, in contrast, are based on a society's customs, laws, statutes or actions by legislatures. An example of a legal right is the right to vote of citizens. Citizenship, itself, is often considered as the basis for having legal rights, and has been defined as the "right to have rights". Legal rights are sometimes called statutory rights and are culturally and politically relative since they depend on a specific societal context to have meaning.

There has been considerable philosophical debate about the both senses throughout history. For example, Jeremy Bentham believed that legal rights were the essence of rights, and he denied the existence of natural rights; whereas Thomas Aquinas held that rights purported by positive law but not grounded in natural law were not properly rights at all, but only a facade or pretense of rights.

Kinds of rights
Rights are categorized by:
 * public right (공권) v. civil or private right (사권) in terms of applicable law;
 * property right (재산권), personality right (인격권, liberty), family right (가족권, 신분권), company man's right (사원권) in terms of contents;
 * dominance right (지배권), claim right (청구권), establishment right (형성권) and protest or objection right (항변권) in terms of effect;
 * absolute right (절대권) and relative right (상대권) in terms of scope of objects;
 * exclusively one's own right (일신전속권) and non-exclusive right (비전속권) in terms of the relationship with the holder;
 * master right (주된 권리) and slave right (종된 권리) in terms of inter-relationship of rights;
 * ready made right (기성의 권리) and expectation right (기대권, 희망권) in terms of satisfied requirements.

Legal right and similar concepts
Specifically, a legal right derives from each and all legal powers (법률상의 힘, 권능/權能).

In accordance with Article 211 of the Civil Act, an owner has the right, within the scope of law, to use, take the profits of, and dispose of, the article owned. In this case, the right to use, the right to take profits, or the right to dispose is each the legal power.

In case of set-off, the legal right consits of one legal power. Articles 492 - 499. On the contrary, the agency right of an agent (Article 114) or the representative right of a director of a juristic person (Article 59) is called a legal capacity or authority (법률상의 자격인 권한/權限).

A legal title (권원/權原) means the cause that justifies such conduct as have affixed a thing to another person's immovable. Proviso of Article 256 (Attachment to Immovable). In this case, such conduct would not be regarded as violation of another person's property right.