ancient lights

noun

1. usually functioning as singular the legal right to receive, by a particular window or windows, adequate and unobstructed daylight

Example Sentences

My hands tremble a little as I untangle the ancient lights from one another.

From Literature

In whatever direction tramlines or railroads desired to flow, there stood Samuel ready to apply his tourniquet, which was sometimes nothing more than one tumbledown cottage plastered with signs of ancient lights.

From Project Gutenberg

A good example of what I mean is to be found in number fifteen of the collection, "Ancient Lights."

From Project Gutenberg

The following examples of how land may be “injuriously affected,” so as to give a right to compensation under the acts, may be given:—narrowing or obstructing a highway which is the nearest access to the lands in question; interference with a right of way; substantial interference with ancient lights; noise of children outside a board school.

From Project Gutenberg

Of these ancient lights there yet remain those on either side of the Dardanelles; one in the archipelago on the island of Milo, two in the gulf of Salonica, and one near Lagos in Romania; Malta, Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Genoa, Malaga, Cape Tarifa, and other places, still preserve the fires which guided the prow and the galley of the masters of the old world.

From Project Gutenberg