Example sentences of "right [prep] it [prep] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
2 ‘ 3(1) Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to an appropriation , and this includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner .
3 This result is probably implicit in the concept of appropriation ( or ‘ conversion ’ ) ; but it is made explicit by the provision in clause 3(1) that a person 's assumption of the rights of an owner ‘ includes , where he has come by the property ( innocently or not ) without stealing it , any later assumption of a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner . ’
4 There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " .
5 He has come by the property without stealing it and has later assumed a right to it by keeping it .
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