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Meanings of by rights in English

Spanish
adecuadamente

With reason or justice.

adecuadamente
Usage of by rights in English
1
But problems remain, which by rights should have been the developer's responsibility.
Wired
2
The facility has been widely criticized by rights groups and foreign governments.
Reuters
3
You are by rights one of us who do not use iron.
Enchanted Glass
4
Although by rights you're the one should be in charge of it.
Kings of the earth: a novel
5
Well liked, even by those who should by rights be his enemies.
Reuters
6
The city should never have taken them over at all by rights.
The Titan
7
You've been wounded -you shouldn't be here at all, by rights!'
Relentless Pursuit
8
We hardly expected it of him, by rights of his confounded stubbornness.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
9
Both place and figure ought to have been somewhere else by rights.
The Extra Day
10
Great philosophers and profound metaphysicians should by rights have lived at Slumberleigh.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
11
But it is his by rights, and his council will advise him.
The Lady of the Rivers
12
He ought by rights to have been blown into a thousand pieces.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 01
13
Had ye good wits, ye should have left it undone, by rights.
The Nibelungenlied
14
Penury, penury and piecemeal disgrace, for a man by rights so rich!
The crimson petal and the white
15
Brick, who by rights, should have been most concerned, was least so.
The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger
16
It's his by rights, and he'd ought a had it long ago.'
Georgina of the Rainbows
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