by right
as of right , auch: of right *

By rights he should have been dead an hour before.

And by rights the thing should have been dead more than a million years ago.

By rights he shouldn't have been in the race at all.

No, I am one who would know these things by right.

By all rights you should be out for another two or three hours.

Although, she added to herself, if they'd told the whole story by rights they should.

By rights he should have been able to pass for human.

By rights, he should have gone home to bed, allowed himself some rest.

When you're a King's son, growing up you get the best of everything by right.

By all rights, things were going better than they could expect.