No right to arrive and seize church documents (7)
I believe the answer is:
archive
'no' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I don't understand how one could define the other.
'right to arrive and seize church documents' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'right' could be 'ar' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ar' is found within the answer.
'church' could be 'ch' (common abbreviation) and 'ch' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'ive' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for archive that I've seen before include "Collection of historic or institutional documents" , "Documents store" , "Record repository" , "employed for historical records" , "Document or record store" .)