legitimate holder

Only legitimate holders could turn in the outgoing script; others would be left with worthless paper.

For the moment, then, I would take him to be the legitimate holder of the GaJe throne.

Then he 'acquires' other holds, dueling the legitimate holders to death and ousting their families from their homes.

And so Harry Ingram of the Palms became the legitimate holder of the baronetcy.

King Henry and King Stephen recognized Pain as the legitimate holder of the lands acquired through his wife Sybil.

The Jin Dynasty, having occupied the plains around the Yellow River, also saw itself as the legitimate holder of the "Mandate of Heaven".

RPKI can be used by the legitimate holders of the resources to control the operation of Internet routing protocols to prevent route hijacking and other attacks.

Espionage is inherently clandestine, and the legitimate holder of the information may change plans or take other countermeasures once it is known that the information is in unauthorized hands.

Thus, every non-Han dynasty saw itself as the legitimate holder of the "Mandate of Heaven", which legitimized the dynastic cycle regardless of social or ethnic background.

Tenants of a legitimate holder of unsold units, on the other hand, would likely be exempted from whatever rules the holder of unsold units is exempt from.

In about 100 complaints raised in arbitration proceedings to resolve domain name disputes, panels have ruled against him almost every time, prosecutors said, and ordered him to transfer the names at issue to the legitimate holder.

The 11th Panchen Lama controversy is a dispute about the current legitimate holder of the Panchen Lama title, a political and religious leadership position in Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism.

I ask the House to accept the proposal of the Agriculture Committee on this point too, so that those who wish to claim rights under a patent must prove that they are indeed the legitimate holders of the patent.

In 1971, the ROC government walked out of the United Nations shortly before it recognized the PRC government in Beijing as the legitimate holder of China's seat in the United Nations.