lawfulness
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈlɔːfəl.nəs/
- Formal
:
legalidad
- The lawfulness of the new regulations was confirmed by the court.
That by that it increased an atmosphere of, of civility and lawfulness.
- That by that it increased an atmosphere of, of civility and lawfulness.
Examples
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Understanding the lawfulness of the adoption of the Constitution is not merely of historical interest.
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The regime judged the lawfulness of the student protests strictly according to the regulations.
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Jackson instead offered the following standard for when the lawfulness of an arrest should be determined based on state or federal law:
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Will lawfulness ever return to the birthplace of law?
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The question before us concerns the benefits and burdens of preferences, not the justice of them or their lawfulness.
Academic text (1998) -
Accordingly, the lawfulness of the manufacture of a particular copy should be judged by U.S. copyright law.
Blog text (9) -
Justice Jackson then turned to the government's new argument, expressed for the first time in its supplemental brief, that the lawfulness of the arrest should be decided as a matter of federal common law instead of state law.
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The Supreme Court first confronted the lawfulness of cross-enforcement during Prohibition in two 1927 decisions.
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In Obergefell v. Hodges, 207 members of same-sex unions sought to marry their partners or to receive state recognition of the lawfulness of their same-sex marriages.
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I devote less attention to the theory's constitutional underpinnings, for the simple reason that the lawfulness of stare decisis, even in constitutional cases, is well established in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence.
Academic text (2018)
Synonyms
54
4.6
A state in which something is allowed by law or official rules
42
4.1
A state in which the law allows something
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4.9
Legal force that makes a document or agreement binding
Being allowed by law
Antonyms
How Lawful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lawfulness is built from law plus the endings -ful ('full of') and -ness ('a state or quality'), so it paints the picture of being 'full of law' or following rules. So, lawfulness means being 'in accordance with the law' or acting in a legal way.