By rights

Well, whether the gentlemen really do deprive us of any little matters which ought to be ours by rights, I cannot say for certain; but the opinion of the old ones is they do.

He told me not to tell anyone. I suppose that I should not by rights have told you.

The rest will be speculators, that's men trying to get between you and the oilmen to get some of the money that ought, by rights, come to you.

By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.

You Keep Fucking Me is one of the highlights of a new exhibition of her paintings, all of them created since her diagnosis with a cancer that should, by rights, have seen her off.