right of re-entry

1. 1.

   the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with)

   Broaderlegal right

   law

Questions about right of re-entry

What does right of re-entry mean?

right of re-entry means "the legal right to resume possession (a right that was reserved when a former possession was parted with)".

Is right of re-entry a common word?

right of re-entry is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.