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by good rights
By right, by strict justice; as, "By good rights Mr. Clay ought to be President of the United States...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Directly; soon. Peculiar to America.--Webster.
If folks will do what I tell 'em, things will go strait enough to rights.--Maj. Downing's Letters, p. 5.
So to rights the express got back, and brought a letter.--Ibid. p. 129.
By right, by strict justice; as, "By good rights Mr. Clay ought to be President of the United States...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.