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Entitle

In its usual sense, to entitle is to glve a right or title. Therefore a per son is said to be entitled to property when he has a right to it. Com. v. Moorhead, 7 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 516; Thompson v. Thompson, 107 Ala. 103, 18 South. 247

Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)