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Having a reciprocal relationship in that the existence of one relationship normally implies the existence of the other. Mother and child, and duty and claim, are correlative terms. In the law governing gas and oil transactions, a correlative right is the opportunity of each owner of land making up part of a common source of supply of oil and gas to produce an equitable share of such products. In the law governing Water Rights, the correlative rights doctrine gives the individual owners of land overlying a strata of percolating waters limited rights to use the water reasonably when there is not enough water to meet the needs of everyone in the area. CORRELATIVE. This term is used to designate those things, one of which cannot exist without another; for example, father and child; mountain and valley, &c. Law, obligation, right, and duty, are therefore correlative to each other. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For, in the Church, there is always a correlativity of rights and obligations. The joint development team looked at the relationship between the magneto-resistance (MR) ratio(*1) and resistance-area (RA)(*2) in the MTJ, and by further applying correlativity with read speed, the team established an original method of finding the optimal conditions for achieving high speed. |
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