What is "lawful"

Usage examples of "lawful".

Here the Court declared that the right of a citizen, resident in one State, to contract in another, to transact any lawful business, or to make a loan of money, in any State other than that in which the citizen resides was a privilege of national citizenship which was abridged by a State income tax law excluding from taxable income interest received on money loaned within the State.

Though you cannot want sufficient calls to repentance for the many unwarrantable weaknesses exemplified in your behaviour to this wretch, so much to the prejudice of your own lawful family, and of your character, I say, though these may sufficiently be supposed to prick and goad your conscience at this season, I should yet be wanting to my duty, if I spared to give you some admonition in order to bring you to a due sense of your errors.

In making appropriations to pay claims arising out of the Civil War, the Court held that it was lawful to provide that certain persons, i.

Even if they were put aside, that attainder passed against the Duke of Clarence was an insufficient reason to deprive his son of his lawful inheritance.

In due course the husband did apply to the English ambassador, requesting him to compel Acton to restore to him his lawful wife.

Since nothing Od learned was forbidden in her own school, the magic you and Lady Dittany practice may well be lawful here.

He told me in his letter that both the superior and the Tribunal were tyrants, since they had no lawful authority over his conscience: that being sure that the three children were his, he thought himself constrained as a man of honour not to deprive them of the advantage of bearing his name.

I asked in my dialogue whether it was lawful for a provost-marshal to call himself simply marshal, and whether a lieutenant-colonel had a right to the title of colonel.

In my indignation I snatched the bag from him, saying that I would certainly return it to its lawful owner.

Parliaments, without the which neither any laws or lawful judicatories can be established, Acts 130 and 131, Parl.

Alexandria is a long way from Rome, and I must assume that you will be its lawful king the moment Lathyrus Chickpea dies.

At the two opposite poles of conscientious rectitude are laxity and scruples, one judging all things lawful, the other all things forbidden.

Iceland and still stranger waters, skippers of Dutch luggers and Norway brigs who leavened their lawful merchantry with commodities not approved by law.

European society in particular was still nucleated about the family group in relation to a generally understood code of lawful behaviour.

A wise prince should have rewarded the crime of Taurus: the faithful minister, when he was no longer able to oppose the progress of a rebel, had taken refuge in the court of his benefactor and his lawful sovereign.