Elements of a Legal Right—According to Salmond every legal right has the following five elements or characteristics-
1. The Person of Inherence—A legal right is always vested in a person who may be distinguished as the subject of ‘right’ known as person of inherence.
2. The Person of Incidence— It avails against a person upon whom lies the co-relative duty. He is recognised as the subject of the duty known as the person of incidence.
3. Contents of the Right—The act or omission which is obligatory on the person bound in favour of the person entitled. This is- called the content or substance of right.
4. Subject-matter of Right—It is something to which the act or omission relates that is the thing over which a right is exercised which is called the object or subject-matter of right.
5. Title of the Right-Every legal right has a title, i.e., certain facts or events by reason of which the right has become vested in its owner. Salmond illustrates above elements of a legal right by citing an example i.e., if A buys a piece of land from B. A is the subject or owner of the right so required. The person bound by the co-relative duty are per-sons in general because a right of this kind avails against the world at large. The contents of rights consists in non-interference with the purchaser’s exclusive use of the land. The object or the subject-matter of right is the conveyance by which it was acquired from the former owner.