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• r  in a manner acceptable to common custom
• r  by law; conforming to the law
  we are lawfully wedded now

• The Justice Department is preparing to test whether accepting lawfully reported campaign contributions may constitute corruption, subjecting Washington politicians to an entirely .
• Preference for American Military Service: Place those foreign persons who are lawfully present in the country and who serve honorably in the Armed Forces of the United States on .
• An August 1, 2002 Justice Department memo signed by Bybee concluding that suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah, who was believed to fear insects, could lawfully be confined with a .

• legitimately
• licitly
• legally
• de jure

• illegitimately
• lawlessly
• illicitly
• unlawfully

News & Articles

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• State AG gives Salinas OK to sue Castañeda
  The state Attorney General's office late Tuesday gave Salinas officials permission to sue Councilman Jose Castañeda in a bid to resolve whether he can lawfully continue to serve as a trustee on the Alisal Union school board and the City Council at the sam
  July 3, 2013 - The Salinas Californian
• Same-sex weddings resume in Sonoma County
  My lawfully wedded spouse. Those words resounded Monday at the county Clerk's Office as gay couples exercised their newly legal right to marry.
  July 1, 2013 - The Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Quotes

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• John Paul Stevens in Lompoc Record
  In his dissent, Judge John Paul Stevens wrote that there's nothing wrong with honoring soldiers in that manner, but the government "cannot lawfully do so by continued endorsement of a starkly sectarian message."
• Gordon Brown in ic Wales
  Mr Brown told journalists at Downing Street, "What has happened, where political donations have not been lawfully declared, is completely unacceptable, cannot be justified in any way, and this behaviour should never happen again in future."...
• Stephen Breyer in MiamiHerald.com
  I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment right in our Constitution -- the rights of sportsmen and hunters and homeowners that want to keep their families safe -- to lawfully bear arms, while dealing with assault... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA CNN International http://www.google.com/url?q=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/16/obama.latin.america/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG3afoQ5noooL-ix-U1ZK03EJI3bg Apr 16, 2009 57200 75981 lawfulness In this case, the [lawyer's] failure seriously prejudiced a client who thereby lost what was likely his single opportunity for federal habeas [corpus] review of the lawfulness of his imprisonment and of his death sentence," Justice Stephen...