The Chief of the Apparatus murdered legitimate successors to the throne.

Edward's lack of children meant there was no clear legitimate successor, leading eventually to a succession dispute.

And let me tell you, to be considered by both to be a legitimate successor takes some skill, because they're two different cultures.

If both go, you would not leave your planet to civil war or to a possible imposter, but to a legitimate successor.

At last Claudius will have a legitimate successor to replace you!

If not, then to his designee or legitimate successor as named by the Duarches.

He declared himself to be the legitimate successor to the Tang Dynasty, which had fallen in 907.

Still, Qaddafi often seemed more interested in playing his children off against one another than in developing a legitimate successor.

She was a legitimate successor who entered reunion after the suspicious death of her grandfather.

During this time Sirimavo was brought forward as legitimate successor to her husband's party leadership and she entered politics.

"To avenge the murder of the old Zarlt and to install his rightful successor."

But some challenge his claim to be the rightful successor.

"As the rightful successor, they are yours," Tegid had told me.

In addition, he is respected as the rightful successor of Muhammad.

The President proposes to open the Government to new politicians who will before long think of themselves as his rightful successors.

A smaller group believed the rightful successor was Ali, the prophet's son-in-law and cousin.

Shi'a believe that those are the rightful successors to Muhammad.

After Joseph Smith's assassination in 1844, several leaders asserted their claims to be his rightful successor.

The warrior who supplanted him, with or without confederates, was deemed his rightful successor.

My troops fight so devotedly when they think they're working for Verity's rightful successor.