 One might claim that a cultural group can inherit cultural property, and thus use this to ground claims for repatriation, even where the justice of acquisition is uncertain: by being denied ownership of the objects, the group is being denied their rightful inheritance. The success of this approach will depend in part on whether the inheritance of property is morally justifiable in the first place. The right to inheritance seems incompatible with a number of theories of domestic justice (e.g., consequentialism, egalitarianism, desert theory (Thompson 2002: 109)), though is perhaps more easily justifiable if one thinks that principles of distributive justice do not apply internationally: this appears to remove distributive justice based rationales for denying the right to inheritance that might apply in the domestic context (Butt 2009: 141–145). Given that many repatriation claims are often international, this leaves more room for the applicability of inheritance-based repatriation claims than might be thought to apply in domestic cases.