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Definition of Lawful
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Lawful
Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent. Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands. Related Definitions:
Allowed, As, Authorized, By, Competent, Conformable, Constituted, Law, Lawful, Legitimate, Of, Or, Owner, Rightful, The, To |
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Lawful Quotations
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. Thomas Carlyle There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey. John Ruskin It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Henry Ward Beecher Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. Josh Billings |
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Lawful Translations
lawful in Italian is legittimo, legale lawful in Latin is legitiums, canonicus, iustus lawful in Norwegian is rettsmessig, lovlig lawful in Swedish is laglig |
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