traditional right

plural traditional rights

1. lawA subsistence privilege or right, which is owned legally or by custom by an indigenous community or village.
2. lawA right that is established by custom or tradition, as opposed to one established by law or a sense of social justice.

   Having paved the way for viewing the state provision of welfare in terms of providing for people's basic needs, Raymond Plant still faced one difficult opponent: Maurice Cranston, who maintained that there is a crucial difference of nature between traditional rights and social ones.

   2016, João Carlos Espada, The Anglo-American Tradition of Liberty: A view from Europe, page 43