Definition of Lawful

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Definition of Lawful
	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

Lawful Quotations

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant

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

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Robert E. Lee

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

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 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

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn

The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel De Cervantes

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad

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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