rightful claimant

Until his father's death in 1891, he and his father both put themselves as rightful claimant.

At first there had been no rightful claimant; now there were four.

In 661 and 680 there were divisions regarding the rightful claimant to the Caliphate.

The commission will attempt to find rightful claimants.

In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.

He appears briefly in the third branch when Manawydan, the rightful claimant, pays homage to him.

The discrepancies between the Member States are too immense in terms of provisions, rightful claimants, revenue or benefits, etc.

With no rightful claimants, the land went to the crown and, in 1556 Etchells was sold to William Tatton.

But Raschar wasand is, still, according to one of my sourcesvery nervous about proving that he is the rightful claimant to the throne.

It was due to an order of Thirumalai in 1635 regarding the succession to the chief of that territory, which was resisted by the rightful claimant.

Therefore, they still uphold the senior agnatic descendant of Philippe d'Anjou as rightful claimant to the French crown.

There, the Chinese clerk who was in Brend's pay had supposed that Paula, not Harry, was the rightful claimant of the sixty-thousand-dollar necklace.

The rightful claimant is the head of the House of Hohenzollern, Georg Friedrich of Prussia.

He was eventually discovered to be the heir of Isildur and rightful claimant to the thrones of Arnor and Gondor.

A légitime, in French law, is that part of an estate which is reserved for the rightful claimant independently of the testamentary dispositions of the deceased.

The crown therefore supported Hugh O'Neill as the rightful claimant and as an ally in Gaelic controlled Ulster.

Other branches of Clan Oliphant do exist but as of today they still await rightful claimants for their chieftainly arms and the right to wear one or two eagle's feathers.

The war was partly due to a dispute over who was the rightful claimant to the British Throne, and thus the supreme monarch of the nascent British Empire.

By the tradition of primogeniture, he was the rightful claimant, and that tradition had been followed in choosing heirs to the Scottish throne since King Edgar in 1097.

In 1594 he married Princess Kusmasana Devi who, as Dona Catherina, was put forward by the Portuguese as the rightful claimant to the throne and became king.

But even though it was obvious that Estelle was the rightful claimant, the bank manager took refuge in formalities, coldly insisting that she provide her father's death certificate, a known impossibility.

In practice, the Fenrir are known to challenge members of other tribes to duels and to take control of caerns, by force if necessary, if the rightful claimants are unable to defend them.

His paternal grandfather was the late Henri, Count of Paris who was generally recognized as the rightful claimant to the French Throne with the title Henri VI.

In 1589, Henry became the sole rightful claimant to the crown of France, though he was not recognized as such by many of his subjects until his conversion to Catholicism four years later.

When they called us to order again, Danvan Hastur rose and said, "From having no rightful claimant to the Alton Domain, we now have four, and the situation must be investigated further.