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rightful heir

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rightful
adjective
uk /ˈraɪt.fəl/ us /ˈraɪt.fəl/
A rightful position or claim is one that is morally or ...
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heir
noun
uk /eər/ us /er/
a person who will legally receive money, property, or a title from another person, especially an older member of the same family, when that other ...
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That is obviously a bad reason because naturally one would thereby defraud the rightfulheir.
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He declared that such rightfulheir would be invested with his patrimony upon coming of age.
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Therefore, he was viewed by some as the rightfulheir.
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By the book's end, the child has realized that she is the couple's daughter, and therefore, the rightfulheir to the throne.
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With his long-standing familial ties in the region, many bishops and counts recognized him as the rightfulheir to the throne.
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She has the ability to use the winds for her attacks and feels she is the rightfulheir to the throne.
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The book quickly concerns itself with finding the rightfulheir to the crown of the city.
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The rightfulheir will be the oldest of the remaining sons.
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In 1930, he declared himself the rightfulheir to the crown as pretender to the throne.
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John, who believed his brother to be the better man and rightfulheir, decided to balance business needs with humanitarian goals.
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Cuthwine, then twenty-seven, was a commander in the fateful battle; but upon defeat, as the rightfulheir to the throne, he fled the place along with his young sons.
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A search of her lodgings yielded a series of bizarre and clearly delusory letters in which she claimed to be the rightfulheir to the throne.
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Since the rightful heirs were protected by law, all of the children of those retiring had to be asked whether they wished to join in contributing to the parents' pension.
Albany transferred the regency to his son; but, nineteen years afterwards, the rightfulheir returned, and the usurper expiated his own and his father's guilt on the scaffold.
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David is allowed to stay, and soon discovers evidence that his father may have been older than his uncle, thus making himself the rightfulheir to the estate.
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It may be all too easy to make a bogus claim and difficult for the rightful heirs to rebut it.
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During the interim, the kingdom would be ruled by one of "the most rightful heirs" as regent.
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Both sets of children from each marriage considered themselves rightful heirs to the throne, which constituted considerable future conflict.
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His father and elder brother were both left-handed, and therefore could not be considered rightful heirs, because the left hand was seen as unclean.
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