Rightful

Adjective

 * 1) By right, by law.

Thesaurus
according to Hoyle, actionable, applicable, appropriate, apt, authentic, authorized, balanced, becoming, befitting, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, competent, condign, constitutional, correct, de jure, decent, decorous, defensible, deserved, dinkum, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, fitting, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, impartial, inartificial, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawful, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, level, licit, lifelike, literal, meet, meet and right, merited, natural, naturalistic, nice, normal, normative, original, proper, pure, real, realistic, requisite, right, right and proper, righteous, sanctioned, seemly, simon-pure, simple, sincere, square, statutory, sterling, suitable, sure-enough, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warrantable, warranted, within the law, word-for-word