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Possession of that ruby had been followed by the death of its unrightful owner.

None but a monarch born may claim a crown-and one who knows her claim to be unrightful must bring chaos upon the land she would rule.

This act of unrightful land transfer from the hands of Native Americans to private railroad companies and homestead grantees resulted in conflicts on more than one occasion.

Under that merciless starlight of infinity, any unrightful challenger would be brushed into nothingness as effortlessly as a man might brush an ant from his sleeve.

Jordan's Article 98 says he who commits a crime in a fit of fury caused by an unrightful and dangerous act on the part of the victim benefits from a reduction in penalty.

Article 98 of the penal code stipulates that "an extenuating justification can be invoked by anyone who commits a crime in a fit of rage as a result of an unrightful and dangerous act carried out by the victim" -- which may significantly reduce penalties for murder.

Early European missionaries in Tonga labeled her act as, "subversive", "tyrannical", "odious in the extreme" and an anthropologist has considered it "unrightful" More recent scholarship has suggested that her action was not actually without historical precedent and was "positively in line with her traditional position and rank."