to rights

Related to to rights: rights issue, human rights, Fundamental rights, Rights and Responsibilities

to rights

Into correct or proper position, arrangement, condition, or order. (Especially in the phrase "put/set (something) to rights.") I must make sure I put the house to rights before my parents come home this evening. Since being diagnosed with terminal cancer, I've begun setting my will and financial affairs to rights.
See also: right
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

to rights

In a satisfactory or orderly condition: set the place to rights.
See also: right
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
See also:
  • all correct
  • right side up
  • right-side up
  • keep (someone or something) in order
  • keep in order
  • retire into (something or some place)
  • put (one) right
  • put right
  • put someone right
  • acknowledge to be right
References in periodicals archive
There is nothing idealistic about Dershowitz's approach to rights. He believes that the notion of rights arising from wrongs "builds on the reality that there is far more consensus about what constitutes gross injustice than about what constitutes perfect justice.
Rights as a learning experience
Reichert employs a foundational conception and a deductive approach to rights where one frames the laws or defines the conventions (for example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), then derives what rights a person has from these and seeks to apply them without question.
Elisabeth Reichert, Social Work and Human Rights: a Foundation for Policy and Practice
"When judges look at the principles of why humans have basic rights, I think they'll see that at least some nonhuman animals are entitled to rights for the same reason," Wise said in an interview.
Rights from wrongs: a movement to grant legal protection to animals is gathering force. (Cover Story)
When river levels began plummeting, the federal government told certain water agencies to limit sharply the amounts they diverted to rights holders.
Tough choices: endangered species are keeping some landowners thirsty
This is a defensible idea, given the monopoly problems intrinsic to rights of way, but it is also an appropriation of property, and it's doubtful that the payments mandated by the FCC represent fair compensation.
Taking back the Fifth
I have argued that human rights - rights/titles held against society equally by all persons simply because they are human beings are foreign to such communities."101 It is highly significant that Donnelly uses the term human rights as rights or claims against societies, and yet within the Western discourse I think that we would refer to rights against the state rather than against society.
A western question to the Middle East: 'Is there a human rights discourse in Islam?'