appertain to
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The Alaskan forest reserves still appertain to the Department of Agriculture.
From Time Magazine Archive
But these considerations appertain to the politician; they do not lie within the scope of the present writer.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
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
According to the treaty we have sworn With Saladin, he must protect our creed With all the privileges, all the rights That appertain to our most holy faith.
From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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
