rightfully

rightful | American Dictionary

rightful
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈrɑɪt·fəl/
having a just and fair claim according to the law:
The stolen property was returned to the rightful owners.

rightfully

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈrɑɪt·fə·li/
This portion of land is rightfully theirs.

Examples of rightful

rightful
At the same time they expressed sympathy with the policy of satisfying rightful popular demands, which they expected the new communist leaden to pursue.
Authority refers to the rightful exercise of power with the claim to be obeyed and relates to the legitimacy of a government branch.
He himself will not forget to claim his ' kola ' or rightful ' part ', as occurs when the potential donor seems distracted or recalcitrant.
And of course, whatever is produced by a commodity belongs to the rightful owner of this commodity.
Giving traditional ecological knowledge its rightful place in environmental impact assessment.
Of course, the family had some rightful authority over treatment, but within limits.
Both the rock and the toothbrush are looted, in the sense of being taken away, for the purpose of an experiment, from their rightful places.
The aldermen paid a great deal of attention to witness testimony and documents that proved rightful ownership, and relatively little attention to gender.
By denying our old their rightful category we do not remedy the problems perpetrated by an ageist society, but rather help perpetuate them.
Her mission, as she defines it, is to restore selflessness, love and compassion to their rightful place in the modern world.
Nor, he says, do they want their "rightful place in society" to be determined in advance by those who can already use those forms.
The most important effect is to restore the extra-parliamentary party to its rightful place as an active agent in party history.
Similarly, the art forms, and in particular music, cannot then take their rightful place in practice.
Art has lost its rightful place in the community.
It is not the place to publish original research, the rightful place of which are the primary research journals.
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