Practice question · True or false
Saying that a tenant "has a right to two months' notice" uses the word right in the same sense as "Spanish law of urban leases".
Hints
- One of the two picks out a claim, the other a body of norms.
- The distinction is objective right against subjective right.
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False
Why
False. The first is a subjective right, a claim held by one person against another. The second is objective right, the body of norms that makes such claims enforceable. English separates them with two words; Catalan, Spanish, French and German do not, which is why the ambiguity has to be handled by attention rather than by vocabulary.
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