incontestable right

The citizen has an incontestable right to post and to adequate provision of service.

'When a painting seems bad to one,' he declared, 'one has an incontestable right, that of not looking at it and going to see others.

The Old Patriot echoed the words of the Declaration of Independence in her assertion of "unalienable rights" and insisted that "the origin of all power is in the people, and that they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation," meaning the elected officials.

The Crofting Reform (Scotland) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this, but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden, and the optional (though not incontestable) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent.

There were, however, general laws under which colleges could be formed by private persons, and if the authorities judged that the members had conformed to the letter and spirit of these laws, they had incontestable rights as collegia legitima; if the requisites were not adhered to they could be suppressed by administrative act.