legitimate possessor

"But," inquired Dantes hesitating, "has this treasure no more legitimate possessor in the world than ourselves?"

So the earliest possible restitution of those holdings to their legitimate possessors is for the Austrian National Library not only a duty under law, but also a moral question.

The bill's sponsor, Senator Anne M. Rand, argued that such a system would help law-enforcement officers, who could better distinguish who was a legitimate possessor of marijuana and who was not, and might even discourage Mainers from growing more marijuana themselves.