'Lawfully' definitions:
Definition of 'lawfully'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a manner acceptable to common custom; "you cannot do this legitimately!" [syn: legitimately, lawfully, licitly] [ant: illegally, illegitimately, illicitly, lawlessly]
adverb
By law; conforming to the law; "we are lawfully wedded now" [syn: legally, lawfully, de jure] [ant: unlawfully]
Definition of 'Lawfully'
From: GCIDE
- Lawful \Law"ful\, a.
- 1. Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands. [1913 Webster]
- Lawful age, the age when the law recognizes one's right of independent action; majority; -- generally the age of twenty-one years. Also called legal age or {age of majority}. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Note: In some of the States, and for some purposes, a woman attains lawful age at eighteen. --Abbott.
- Syn: Legal; constitutional; allowable; regular; rightful.
- Usage: Lawful, Legal. Lawful means conformable to the principle, spirit, or essence of the law, and is applicable to moral as well as juridical law. Legal means conformable to the letter or rules of the law as it is administered in the courts; conformable to juridical law. Legal is often used as antithetical to equitable, but lawful is seldom used in that sense. -- {Law"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Law"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Lawfully'
- Law,
- Lawe,
- Lawful,
- Lawfulness,
- Lawing,
- Laws,
- The Law,
- To have the law of,
- against the law,
- -in-law,
- Ampere's law,
- Avogadro's law,
- Bankrupt law,
- Blue laws,
- Bode's law,
- Body of a law,
- Boyle's law,
- Brehon laws,
- By-law,
- Canon law,
- Ceremonial law,
- Civil law,
- Club law,
- Commercial law,
- Common law,
- Conflict of laws,
- Constitutional law,
- Corn laws,
- Coulomb's law,
- Criminal law,
- Crown law,
- Dalton's Law,
- Draconian laws,
- Ecclesiastical law,
- Falcidian law,
- Falk laws,
- Forest laws,
- Gag law,
- Game laws,
- Grimm's law,
- Heir at law,
- Homestead law,
- Insolvent law,
- International law,
- Joule's law,
- Kepler's laws,
- Law French,
- Law Latin,
- Law binding,
- Law book,
- Law calf,
- Law day,
- Law language,
- Law lords,
- Law merchant,
- Law of Charles,
- Law of Dalton,
- Law of Moses,
- Law of continuity,
- Law of error,
- Law of gravitation,
- Law of honor,
- Law of mortality,
- Law of nations,
- Law of nature,
- Law of the land,
- Lawful age,
- Laws of honor,
- Laws of motion,
- Limb of the law,
- Lynch law,
- Maine law,
- Marconi's law,
- Marine law,
- Mariotte's law,
- Maritime law,
- Martial law,
- May laws,
- Mendel's law,
- Mendelejeff's law,
- Military law,
- Mob law,
- Moral law,
- Mosaic law,
- Municipal law,
- Natural law,
- Penal laws,
- Periodic law,
- Poor law,
- Positive law,
- Presumption of law,
- Public law,
- Retroactive law,
- Roman law,
- Salic law,
- Special law,
- Statute law,
- Sumptuary law,
- Sumptuary laws,
- Sword law,
- To go to law,
- To take the law of,
- Unwritten law,
- Unwritten laws,
- Verner's law,
- Wager of law,
- Written laws,
- action at law,
- administrative law,
- admiralty law,
- antitrust law,
- bachelor of laws,
- benford's law,
- bernoulli's law,
- blue law,
- break the law,
- case law,
- charles's law,
- color of law,
- colour of law,
- conclusion of law,
- contract law,
- corporation law,
- court of law,
- distribution law,
- divine law,
- doctor of laws,
- equality before the law,
- equilibrium law,
- fechner's law,
- finding of law,
- fraud in law,
- fundamental law,
- game law,
- gresham's law,
- harmonic law,
- henry's law,
- higher law,
- hooke's law,
- hubble law,
- hubble's law,
- in-law,
- islamic law,
- kepler's law,
- kirchhoff's laws,
- law abiding,
- law agent,
- law degree,
- law enforcement,
- law firm,
- law of archimedes,
- law of areas,
- law of averages,
- law of closure,
- law of continuation,
- law of effect,
- law of motion,
- law of parsimony,
- law of proximity,
- law of segregation,
- law of similarity,
- law of thermodynamics,
- law of volumes,
- law offender,
- law officer,
- law practice,
- law school,
- law student,
- lay down the law,
- levirate law,
- livery in law,
- master of laws,
- matrimonial law,
- matter of law,
- mendeleev's law,
- mercantile law,
- murphy's law,
- newton's law,
- ohm's law,
- organic law,
- parkinson's law,
- parliamentary law,
- pascal's law,
- patent law,
- planck's law,
- power law,
- practice of law,
- private law,
- question of law,
- rejoicing in the law,
- rejoicing of the law,
- rejoicing over the law,
- rule of law,
- school of law,
- securities law,
- serjeant at law,
- sharia law,
- shariah law,
- sod's law,
- sound law,
- statutory law,
- stevens' law,
- tax law,
- weber's law,
- Book of the Law of Moses,
- Brother-in-law,
- Brothers-in-law,
- Daughter-in-law,
- Daughters-in-law,
- Father-in-law,
- Fathers-in-law,
- Frank-law,
- Gay Lussac's law,
- Law of definite proportions,
- Law of frequency of error,
- Law of multiple proportion,
- Law of universal causation,
- Law-abiding,
- Mother-in-law,
- Nine points of the law,
- Private international law,
- Sister-in-law,
- Sisters-in-law,
- Son-in-law,
- Sons-in-law,
- To make one's law,
- To wage one's law,
- Van't Hoff's law,
- all-or-none law,
- bernard law montgomery,
- blue sky law,
- boltzmann distribution law,
- common-law,
- counselor-at-law,
- due process of law,
- equal protection of the laws,
- first law of motion,
- first law of thermodynamics,
- frederick law olmsted,
- gestalt law of organization,
- heir-at-law,
- homestead exemption law,
- kepler's first law,
- kepler's second law,
- kepler's third law,
- law enforcement agency,
- law of Boyle and Mariotte,
- law of action and reaction,
- law of chemical equilibrium,
- law of common fate,
- law of conservation of energy,
- law of conservation of mass,
- law of conservation of matter,
- law of constant proportion,
- law of diminishing returns,
- law of equal areas,
- law of equivalent proportions,
- law of independent assortment,
- law of large numbers,
- law of mass action,
- law of multiple proportions,
- law of partial pressures,
- law of reciprocal proportions,
- law of the excluded middle,
- law-breaker,
- law-breaking,
- law-makers,
- lawfully-begotten,
- le chatelier's law,
- newton's first law,
- newton's law of gravitation,
- newton's law of motion,
- newton's second law,
- newton's third law,
- planck's radiation law,
- relative-in-law,
- second law of motion,
- second law of thermodynamics,
- sergeant-at-law,
- serjeant-at-law,
- stevens' power law,
- third law of motion,
- third law of thermodynamics,
- zeroth law of thermodynamics,
- Ex post facto law,
- Valued-policy law,
- anti-drug law,
- anti-racketeering law,
- common-law marriage,
- dalton's law of partial pressures,
- european law enforcement organisation,
- federal job safety law,
- gay-lussac's law,
- international law enforcement agency,
- kepler's law of planetary motion,
- mother-in-law plant,
- mother-in-law's tongue,
- newton's first law of motion,
- newton's second law of motion,
- newton's third law of motion,
- pascal's law of fluid pressures,
- sir bernard law montgomery,
- weber-fechner law,
- federal law enforcement training center,
- maxwell-boltzmann distribution law