lawful

[Law·ful]

When something's legal, or the rules allow it, you can call it lawful. It's lawful to plant a tree in your yard, but it's not lawful to dig up a tree in the city park.

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Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

Adjective
conformable to or allowed by law; "lawful methods of dissent"

Adjective S.
authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"

Adjective S.
having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king"

Adjective S.
according to custom or rule or natural law

a.
Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

a.
Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands.

Lawful

Law"ful , a. 1. Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent. 2. Constituted or authorized by law; rightful; as, the lawful owner of lands. Lawful age, the age when the law recognizes one's right of independent action; majority; -- generally the age of twenty-one years. &hand; In some of the States, and for some purposes, a woman attains lawful age at eighteen. Abbott. Syn. -- Legal; constitutional; allowable; regular; rightful. -- 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.

Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

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Usage Examples

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.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

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

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

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.