appertain
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None the less the U. S. State Department requested the Government of Denmark, to which Greenland now appertains, to "investigate" the slaying of the trusted aid of heroic Admiral Peary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever appertains to either is placed "under the guardianship of the State."
From Time Magazine Archive
The court, after mature reflection, held that "in French law the right to bring such suit as this appertains only to ancestral relatives, not to descendants."
From Time Magazine Archive
It possesses, under the constitution, unlimited jurisdiction upon all matters arising under the constitution and laws of the United States, but not the same general jurisdiction that appertains to state tribunals.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
The creation of a corporation, it is said, appertains to sovereignty.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
Vocabulary lists containing appertain
Julius Caesar
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