Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...batteries today will be Brennan and Currier, and Pierce and Danahy. Dana will be in right field in place of Pounds...
...pulled himself out of several tight places by making the men at the bat knock pop flies. Captain Dexter made two pretty catches in left field, and scored the first run with a pretty single to left, after which he stole second and third. Pounds' work in right showed no improvement, his throw to the plate in the fifth, on the only chance he had, being an inexcusable error in judgment. Currier and Simons continued their heavy batting, the former getting two clean singles, and the latter, a two-bagger and a three-bagger...
...best three out of five. Deuce and advantage sets are optional only in the semi-finals and finals. Matches must be played on the day scheduled, or defaulted. If a player is more than 30 minutes late, he will lose by default. All contestants in the tournament have first right to the use of courts...
Professor Vinogradoff said that ancient law was essentially a rule of conduct, which addressed itself to the will and the moral sense of the individual. Legal evolution has been slowly developed from a union of law and right. In Roman times, right often existed without any laws whatever to affect it, and wrong was usually merely the violation of private or individual interest...
Self-help or self-assertion of right, which has not yet entirely disappeared from our systems of law, was a fundamental principle of ancient law. In cases of theft or adultery, an individual was allowed to kill the offender if he could catch him, but if not caught the case had to be referred to trial. Persons who claimed lost property, had the right of taking possession of the property, and justifying their possession afterwards. Ancient law did not depend so much on moral right and claim, as upon the assertion of individual interests...