Definition of lawful

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

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Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Right :: Right (a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong..
Legitimation :: Legitimation (n.) Lawful birth.
Murder :: Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n..
Disloyal :: Disloyal (a.) Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife..
Illegalize :: Illegalize (v. t.) To make or declare illegal or unlawful.
Trawlerman :: Trawlerman (n.) A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.
Whore :: Whore (n.) To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.
Seditious :: Seditious (a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens..
Unlawful :: Unlawful (a.) Not lawful; contrary to law.
Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..
Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right..
Parasynaxis :: Parasynaxis (n.) An unlawful meeting.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Insubordination :: Insubordination (n.) The quality of being insubordinate; disobedience to lawful authority.
Legitimateness :: Legitimateness (n.) The state or quality of being legitimate; lawfulness; genuineness.
Riotous :: Riotous (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
Rebellion :: Rebellion (v. i.) The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection..
Allowable :: Allowable (a.) Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends..
Fornicate :: Fornicate (v. i.) To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
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