appertain

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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Planks, in a political sense, are the several principles which appertain to a party; platform is the collection of such principles.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

It is, then, in the republication of foreign works that our publishers ought to find an element of certainty, which cannot appertain to the publication of original and untried productions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various

The four questions above alluded to appertain respectively to Heredity, Utility, Isolation, and Physiological Selection.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

Exercise the rights and perform the duties which appertain to her with regard to the legitimate and acknowledged natural children she may have had by another, and with relation to the property of the same.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe