Related Clues:

• Picked up one's baggage
• Professed
• Assumed to be true
• Designated, perhaps incorrectly
• Purported
• Generally believed
• Asserted
• Titled, perhaps undeservedly
• Putative
• Defended, as one's rights
• Supposed
• Said (to be)
• Designated as such
• Had rights to
• Said positively