give a right, confer a right; entitle; authorize &c. 760; sanctify,
legalize, ordain, prescribe, allot.
give every one his due &c. 922; pay one’s dues; have one’s due, have
one’s rights.
use a right, assert, enforce, put in force, lay under contribution.
Adj. having a right to &c. v.; entitled to; claiming; deserving,
meriting, worthy of.
privileged, allowed, sanctioned, warranted, authorized; ordained,
prescribed, constitutional, chartered, enfranchised. prescriptive, presumptive; absolute, indefeasible; unalienable, inalienable; imprescriptible[obs3], inviolable, unimpeachable, unchallenged; sacrosanct. due to, merited, deserved, condign, richly deserved.
allowable &c. (permitted) 760; lawful, licit, legitimate, legal;
legalized &c. (law) 963.
square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c. 922; due, en r
gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles[Fr].
Adv. duly, ex officio, de jure[Lat]; by right, by divine right; jure
divino[Lat], Dei gratia[Lat], in the name of.
Phr. civis Romanus sum [Lat][Cicero]; chaque saint sa chandelle[Fr].
#925. [Absence of right.]
Undueness. — N. undueness &c. adj.; malum
prohibitum[Lat]; impropriety; illegality &c. 964.
falseness &c. adj.;
emptiness of title, invalidity of title;
illegitimacy.
loss of right, disfranchisement,
forfeiture.
usurpation, tort, violation,
breach, encroachment, presumption,
assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition,
lion’s share.
usurper, pretender.
V. be undue &c. adj.;
not be due &c. 924.
infringe, encroach,
trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself;
give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain
a point; usurp, violate, do violence to.
disfranchise, disentitle,
disqualify; invalidate.
relax &c. (be lax) 738;
misbehave &c. (vice) 945; misbecome[obs3].
Adj. undue; unlawful
&c. (illegal) 964; unconstitutional; illicit;
unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed[obs3],
unsanctioned, unjustified; unentitled[obs3], disentitled,
unqualified, disqualified; unprivileged, unchartered.
illegitimate, bastard,
spurious, supposititious, false; usurped.
tortious [Law].
undeserved, unmerited,
unearned; unfulfilled.
forfeited, disfranchised.
improper; unmeet, unfit,
unbefitting, unseemly; unbecoming,
misbecoming[obs3]; seemless[obs3]; contra bonos mores[Lat];
not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought
of; preposterous, pretentious, would-be.
Phr. filius nullius.
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