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rightful

legally valid a rightful inheritance (= true, lawful) having a legally established claim the legitimate heir the true and lawful king

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Simple sentences

Are you the rightful owner?
It was an intricate scheme to defraud the rightful heirs.
What!? How could such a civilised man say such a thing! My monocle has fallen from its rightful perch! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!

Movie subtitles

Now it has been returned to its rightful owner.
And according to the laws of this country. his direct descendant is the rightful heir to the Peralta grant.
I'm taking my rightful money with me now.
I'd like to know who has dared to dispose of our enemy, and rob us of our rightful victory?
I cry Morgan Le Fay rightful Queen of England. and her knight champion, Modred, Lord of the Isles.
No son was born to him by his rightful queen.
Morgan Le Fay is the rightful heir.
And Modred the rightful king.
My lady, we are met here so that he that is rightful king shall prove it.
It is ordained that I shall be the rightful king of England.
When the farm is rich, we would never get our rightful share from Farmer Jones.
Do you have a rightful legal will leaving everything to Mrs. Dudgeon?
That morality, which has made Rome strong enough to steal. two-thirds of the world from its rightful owners. founded on the sanctity of Roman marriage and family.
We'll hold the ponies in the back corral until we can determine the rightful owners.
We need to leave it to the Arabs who are its rightful farmers.
Of all the wars known in history it is the only lawful, rightful, just and truly great war.
Thanks to him, I'm in my rightful place.
We all feel more comfortable when we are in our rightful place.
I don't like to see anybody out of their rightful place.
Kill the infamous child who claims to be the rightful King! And destroy forever this traitorous fiend who calls himself The Black Fox!
You've restored my granddaughter to her rightful position.
We ask that you take your rightful position among the community of nations. with all its glory and with all its responsibilities.
Should he pass away, you would rule this province as his rightful successor.
He is my rightful heir and will one day, which is hopefully still far away, be my successor and continue the reign of the province Higuera as I would.
The rightful heir to the name and glory of great Caesar.
You stole my rightful life away from me.
But come to think of it, you're the rightful husband.
And there you will take your rightful place as its commander.
Moh-Sum-See-Wahb. would take his rightful place. as king of the grizzlies. and he would reign supreme. in this high mountain wil derness. for all the years of his life.
The point is, my entire country will be in your debt. for returning the Sahara Stone to its rightful people.
When the time is right, we will emerge and take our rightful place as the supreme power of the universe!
To defraud the Company of its rightful revenues by smuggling contraband goods into the Megropolis.
Is this Koko's rightful place?
To become legal, rightful King of Tara.
And the moment you're widowed, Count Grendel, that well-known champion of widows and orphans, would step in and marry you, thus becoming consort of the rightful Queen of Tara.
I guessed that the morning's business had put Brideshead some considerable way further from his rightful inheritance.
We are here to help you regain the rightful place in that great society.
The people believe him and his sister to be the rightful heirs.
With the prince captured, I guess his sister Alana is the rightful heir.

News and current affairs

Most people evicted from their homes have not been paying their mortgages, and, in most cases, those who are throwing them out have rightful claims.
If Americans reject the president's policies at the polls, America can write off the Bush Doctrine as a temporary aberration and resume its rightful place in the world.
Globally, we must allow political and social power to establish their rightful place next to economic power.
Now Ukraine's people may face a similar test after supporters of Viktor Yanukovych threatened to seek autonomy should the rightful winner of the country's presidential vote, Viktor Yushchenko, actually become president.
The US should now do right by this peaceful and democratic country: recognize Mauritius' rightful ownership of Diego Garcia, renegotiate the lease, and redeem past sins by paying a fair amount for land that it has illegally occupied for decades.
That multimedia spectacular did far more than trace China's 5,000-year history; it was a statement that China is a major civilization that demands and deserves its rightful place in the global hierarchy.
Indeed, China was not asked to bear anything like its rightful share of the burden in curbing carbon emissions under the Kyoto Protocol.
This will set policy priorities straight, put strategies in place to avert a human catastrophe, and help Africa secure its rightful place at the global economic table.
In recent years, with countries such as China, India, and Brazil taking their rightful place on the international scene, the G-7 has given way to the G-20.
More broadly, Abe envisages Japan's future as that of a trading country that has assumed its rightful role in ensuring a free and open maritime order.
Unless good-faith efforts at compromise are shown by all sides, Thailand will not retake its rightful place among the world's up-and-coming democracies.

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