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Definition of By rights
1. Adverb. With reason or justice.
Definition of By rights
1. Adverb. (idiomatic) Properly, in justice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of By Rights
Literary usage of By rights
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... in its widest extent: unlimited in respect of services, by any right to or
over the same subject in another; and limited only by rights of others over ..."
2. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1890)
"The exchange equitable when burdens are compensated by rights.—IV. How unlimited
universal suffrage found its way into local society. ..."
3. Commentaries on the Law of Torts: A Philosophic Discussion of the General by Edgar Benton Kinkead (1903)
"by rights in rem is now embraced those rights which are available against the
... by rights in personam are indicated those which are available against a ..."
4. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"... conditions constituted by beneficial rights to things (that is, rights to
powers over things) or by rights to those rights, and so on; ..."
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