BY RIGHT

Dueness

Adverb: duly, ex officio, de jure; by right, by divine right; jure divino, Dei gratia, in the name of.

Crosswords: BY RIGHT

I know, by right we shouldn't even be here. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

By Right of Birth (1921)

Endurance by Right vs. Heno Match Race (1901)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Wallpaper design number sixty eight, by Messrs. Virchaux & Co. by right, obtained from Joseph Ramee. Design of double columns, ornamented with grapes and vine leaves - another part ornamented with losanges, placed horizontally forming the intervals. Credit: Library of Congress.

Ralph Stuart in his great success By right of sword. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Men therefore in society having property, they have such a right to the goods, which by the law of the community are their's, that no body hath a right to take their substance or any part of it from them, without their own consent: without this they have no property at all; for I have truly no property in that, which another can by right take from me, when he pleases, against my consent. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

By this fluctuation the pond asserts its title to a shore, and thus the shore is shorn, and the trees cannot hold it by right of possession.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Indigenous People

Peru

Nevertheless, according to the director of the Human Rights Ombudsman's Native Communities Program, the only right still statutorily set aside for this native population with respect to its land is that of "unassignability," which prevents the title to such lands from being reassigned to some nonindigenous tenant by right of tenure. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "BY RIGHT": by right of ♦ by right of office. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏بحكم. (various references)

Danish

område beskyttet af eneret (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Dutch

wettelijke voogdij (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother), gebied beschermd door een exclusieve toewijzing (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Finnish

lakimääräinen holhous (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother). (various references)

French

de droit. (various references)

German

Vormundschaft kraft Gesetzes (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother), durch eine Exklusivität geschütztes Gebiet (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Greek 

περιοχή που προστατεύεται από δικαίωμα αποκλειστικότητας (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Hungarian

jogosan (by rights, deservedly, justly, right, rightfully), jog szerint (by rights, de jure). (various references)

Italian

tutela legale (tutelage by right of surviving father or mother), territorio protetto da un'esclusiva (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Pig Latin

ybay ightray

Portuguese

por direito. (various references)

Russian 

всеми правдами и неправдами (by right or wrong). (various references)

Spanish

territorio protegido por una exclusividad (territory protected by right of exclusiveness). (various references)

Swedish

rätteligen. (various references)

iure. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bright, righty.

-2 letters: bight, birth, girth, grith, right, yirth.

-3 letters: brig, brit, girt, grit, gyri, thir, trig.

-4 letters: big, bit, ghi, gib, git, hit, rib, rig, thy, try.

-5 letters: bi, by, hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: brightly.

+2 letters: eyebright.

+3 letters: eyebrights.

+5 letters: bigheartedly.