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W.S. Farmer & J.L. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues, vol. 2 (1891), says that "dead to rights" means "certain; without doubt," and asserts that it is simply an amplification of the earlier term "to rights," meaning "completely to one's satisfaction." Dead appears in a similarly amplifying way in such current phrases as "dead broke," "dead certainty," "dead heat," and "dead ringer."
dead to rights In the act of committing an error or crime, red-handed. For example, They caught the burglars dead to rights with the Oriental rugs. This phrase uses to rights in the sense of "at once."
So it appears that Farmer & Henley didn't fully grasp the sense of "dead to rights" as the phrase was used in the latter half of the nineteenth century, though the meaning that Slang and Its Analogues ascribes to the term certainly does appear in some contemporaneous writings. For example, from "Born and Raised in Mobile," in Sweet & Knox, Three Dozen Good Stories from Texas Siftings (1887):
This morning, upon the arrival of one of the trains on the Northern Central Railroad, a passenger named Loring Gillis, of Buffalo, New York, felt a hand inserted in one of his pockets, and before it could be removed, he turned suddenly around, and succeeded in coloring [sic] its owner, a dapper, flashy dressed individual of thirty or thereabouts, with "pickpocket" written all over him. Upon feeling for his pocket-book, containing about two hundred dollars, Mr. Gillis found it was gone. The "chevalier," like all his class when caught "dead to rights," tried to shut Mr. Gillis' eye up with the "virtuous indignation" game, but finding that no "go," tried to close it with one of his fists. Here, too, it was foiled, for Mr. Gillis showed a superior proficiency in the "manly art," and the "chevalier" was finally forced to succumb. During the scuffle two individuals, supposed to be pals of the pickpocket, were seen to run from the crowd, but from some cause were not pursued and arrested.
It is obvious that this use of "dead" before an adjective has nothing to do with "death/end of life". So etymology should give us a hint, but etymonline only registers this use without any explanation of this curious use.
My view, and I think that's the only possible explanation, is that "dead" in this special use is a transformation of another word that in the course of time was shortened and slowly took on the form of dead.
This word can only be "total/totally". I suppose that such structures as "dead drunk" came into use at a time when the ending -ly was not yet a firmly established marker for adverbs from adjectives, that is to say, the structure was probably "total drunk". The first syllable of "total" may have changed from tot to tet/ded and was finally written dead. Actually this "dead" is another word and dictionaries should have two entries: dead # 1 and dead #2.
I understood that 'dead to rights' was also a reference to the pitiable condition of a moving target, where the shooter has a clear shot and literally aims slightly to the "right" (or just in the direction of where the target is heading). This is a fairly easy shot to take and most often a guaranteed hit.
For an individual to be caught 'dead to rights' would mean that it was too late for him/her and he/she was destined for whatever punishment was coming. Having someone 'dead to rights' would put you in the position of the shooter, illustrating the power you have over the coming moment when the punishment will occur.
I heard the expression from my mother who had English ancestors. I thought it meant that 'dead to rights' meant that the person had NO rights because he committed a crime that had lots of witnesses and proof that he was guilty....therefore NO rights.
This article examines how decedents are treated across a variety of legal disciplines and asks why the law gives the dead certain legal rights but not others. For example, survival statutes allow certain tort claims to be brought after death, most non-personal contracts (except those personal in nature) survive death, and at least one court has suggested that the dead have a nascent constitutional right to reproductive liberty. In contrast, testamentary directions concerning the disposal of property are sometimes ignored and some states disallow posthumous right of publicity or defamation claims. Many legal rules favoring the dead could be explained simply as an attempt to control, incentivize, punish and empower the actions of the living. Yet, such an explanation is incomplete because it ignores cultural norms and an innate desire among the living to honor the wishes of the dead even when doing so may harm the interests of the living. This article argues that consistent use of "rights" language by legislatures and courts is evidence not only that such cultural norms exist, but also that they guide the development of legal rules in very important ways. Where granting posthumous rights is practical, the article argues that judges and legislators should do so because it humanizes the law, making it more accessible to the general public.
In building this thesis, the article relies on both Hohfeldian notions of legal rights and the extensive philosophical literature exploring the necessary characteristics of legal rights-holders. The article also considers a wide variety of legal cases which seem to confer legal rights on decedents, drawing particular attention to a few well-settled, common legal rules. Using these examples, the article develops a series of principles that will help judges, legislators and legal scholars think about the legal treatment of decedents' interests, including the way the law should treat decedents' legal interests. The article also explores what it means to be a legal rights holder, how posthumous rights can be enforced, and some of the agency problems created when an estate acts on a decedent's behalf.
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Dead to Rights is a neo-noir third-person action video game developed by Namco Hometek. It was released in 2002 as a timed exclusive for the Xbox, and released for the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo GameCube followed thereafter. A year after its console debut, the game was released for Microsoft Windows. It was followed by Dead to Rights II in 2005, Dead to Rights: Reckoning for the PSP, also in 2005, and Dead to Rights: Retribution on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010. The game also has a GBA version which is loosely based on the console version.
Honest cop Jack Slate gets a "shots fired" call and heads to a construction site. There he battles his way through the site with the help of his trusty K9 partner Shadow, killing many enemies and finally finding the source of the call. To his shock its his father, Frank, murdered. Jack is determined to find his father's killer and get revenge despite police chief Hennessey trying to keep him off the case. Finally, Hennessey points out that his father has only one enemy, Augie Blatz. Jack decides to go after Blatz for answers and revenge despite Hennessey's warnings not to do anything stupid.
Jack goes after Augie Blatz at the Den of Iniquity, a popular nightclub for criminals. Blatz is a major crime lord in the Grant City underworld though he hides it by giving money to charitable organizations. However that money comes from drugs and racketeering and Frank Slate knew it so Jack believes that Augie killed him to keep him quiet about it. With the help of Hildy, Frank's assistant turned stripper, Jack sneaks past the bouncers to the dance floor which he clears with the fire alarm. He then has to battle several goons including one named Boris hand-to-hand, getting a gun after Boris is dead. More armed goons then storm the room and Jack has to take them all out and a guy named Dimitri to get an elevator pass key to continue after Blatz. After battling through more of Blatz's goons upstairs, Jack finally confronts Blatz who is not upset at all to hear of Frank's death but claims innocence before rushing off and leaving his men to kill Jack. Jack fights his way out of the club and chases Blatz down a street through more goons to the Bay Bell apartment building.
After clearing the lobby, Jack heads upstairs to Blatz's apartment where he finally confronts the crook. To his shock, Blatz is tied to a chair and Jack is non-fatally shot by an assassin named Patch. Patch then kills Blatz with Jack's gun and makes it look like he murdered Blatz, telling his boss on the phone that its done. Patch only didn't kill Jack on his boss' orders but informs him that Augie Blatz did not kill his father before he passes out.
Jack has been in prison for seven months awaiting his execution for the murder of Augie Blatz. A friend of his father's, Preacherman Jones arrives and tells him that a prisoner named Tattoo has an escape map and is planning a break when Jack is executed and that another prisoner named Wireboy claims he can stop the electric chair, Old Sparky. Jack, wanting to break out and continue his quest for revenge, decides to head to the Workshop and find Wireboy. After fighting his way out of Cellblock A, Jack finds the Workshop where he fights more prisoners and gains access to Wireboy. Wireboy reveals that battery acid on the electric chair's conduits will knock out the whole power grid for hours and while he has it, Jack needs to get him 25 cigarette packs as payment. Jack first heads to the gym where he wins a boxing match, hitting a bag more than 150 times and weight lifting to get 3 packs. Upon leaving, he is approached by a prisoner named Timmy who offers him another pack if he beats up Mad Dog in Cellblock B to save him from a beating. Jack agrees and heads to Cellblock B, fighting his way in. Jack fights several prisoners before facing Mad Dog, eventually beating him too. He gets 6 more packs, including one from a grateful Timmy and then heads to Cellblock C to find Big Arm Tony to arm wrestle. In Cellblock C, Jack beats up the prisoners and gets 6 more packs then arm wrestles Big Arm Tony. Winning the match, Jack gets another pack and is asked by a guard to retrieve a photo of his girlfriend from Cellblock D in exchange for yet another pack. Agreeing, Jack fights his way in and after dispatching all the inmates in the cellblock, finds the photo. Jack then has to fight the inmate who stole it, Mac and wins, getting all but the last pack he needs. After dropping off the photo to the guard, Jack gets the last pack and then heads to the Workshop. Wireboy gives him the battery acid and Jack heads to the showers to get Tattoo's escape map. On the way, Jack hears Shadow yelp and beats up sadistic guard Sickle to keep him from harming Shadow. In the showers, Tattoo refuses to let Jack see his map and Jack has to beat it out of him. Jack then returns to his cell and does an interview with reporter Kip Waterman to avoid Sickle. Afterwards, Jack examines the map to find that it traces a path through the shower drains and underground sewers out.
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