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Definition of Lawfully
1. Adverb. In a manner acceptable to common custom. "You cannot do this legitimately!"
Partainyms: Lawful, Legitimate, Licit
Antonyms: Lawlessly, Illegitimately, Illicitly
2. Adverb. By law; conforming to the law. "We are lawfully wedded now"
Definition of Lawfully
1. Adverb. conforming to the law; legally ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lawfully
1. lawful [adv] - See also: lawful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lawfully
Literary usage of Lawfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"... direct the disposal of any real property which can lawfully be disposed of.
and appoint a commission to make titles thereto, and the conveyance of such ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... to tbe faid Lady Mary, and Lady Elizabeth, being illegitimate, and not lawfully
begotten, for that the Marriage had, between the said late King, ..."
3. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1808)
"... and appoint, that if it should fortune himself our said late cousin, King
Edward the Sixth, to decease, having no issue of his body lawfully begotten, ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1897)
"... Nantucket January : 3: y' 1765 Christopher Bunker & Abigail Worth both of
Sherborn on Nantucket being lawfully Published ware married by me Caleb Bunker ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"And the said JS afterwards, on the same day, lawfully entered into said premises,
and by virtue of said deed became lawfully seised of the same ; and being ..."
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