Definition of "exclusive right" []

• The power, granted by the government to persons, to allow or disallow others from taking certain actions (through legal force) (noun)

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• "A joint resolution to grant to Angus W. McDonald, the exclusive right of publishing certain manuscripts obtained by him from England, was taken up, and agreed to."
• "But, as I have said, we shall get the Floridas without, and I would not give one inch of the waters of the Mississippi to any nation, because see in a light very important to our peace the exclusive right to it's navigation, & the admission of no nation into it, but as into the Potomak or Delaware, with our consent & under our police."
• "I hold this to be true, that when the States, composing this Confederacy, delegated to this central governmect the exclusive right and power to make war, they necessarily gave with it all the rights and powers incidentally necessary to make the war grant efficient and effective."