appertain

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

From Time Magazine Archive

But to what portion of sovereignty does it appertain?

From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.

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

I happen to have copies of two editions of the Nemo, which, though they are undated, must appertain to the year 1518.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

They think that “ordinances so liable to abuse, and the cause of so many divisions and persecutions, cannot truly appertain to the law of God.”

From Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Cornwallis, Caroline Frances