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641 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGAL.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Lawful; permitted by law; as a legal trade. Anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.
642 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGAL.6 (Noah Webster)
The exception must be confined to legal crimes.
643 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGALITY.1 (Noah Webster)
LEGALITY, n.
644 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGALIZE.1 (Noah Webster)
LEGALIZE, v.t.
645 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGALIZE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. To make lawful; to render conformable to law; to authorize. What can legalize revenge?
646 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGALIZE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. To sanction; to give the authority of law to that which is done without law or authority. Irregular proceedings may be legalized by a subsequent act of the legislature.
647 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGALLY.1 (Noah Webster)
LEGALLY, adv. Lawfully; according to law; in a manner permitted by law.
648 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LEGITIMATENESS.1 (Noah Webster)
LEGITIMATENESS, n. legality; lawfulness; genuineness.
649 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIBERTINE.2 (Noah Webster)
1. Among the Romans, a freedman; a person manumitted or set free from legal servitude.
650 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LICENSE.6 (Noah Webster)
1. To permit by grant of authority; to remove legal restraint by a grant of permission; as, to license a man to keep an inn.
651 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIEN.2 (Noah Webster)
LIEN, n. [supra.] A legal claim; as a lien upon land.
652 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIFE.41 (Noah Webster)
26. The state of being in force, or the term for which an instrument has legal operation; as the life of an execution.
653 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LIGHT.71 (Noah Webster)
17. Not of legal weight; clipped; diminished; as light coin.
654 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MARRIAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
… ; the legal union of a man and woman for life. Marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection …
655 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NON-ABILITY.1 (Noah Webster)
NON-ABILITY, n. A want of ability; in law, an exception taken against a plaintiff in a cause, when he is unable legally to commence a suit.
656 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NONAGE.1 (Noah Webster)
… concerns. Legal maturity of age is different in different countries. In this country, as in Great Britain, a man’s nonage continues till he has completed twenty …
657 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NULL.2 (Noah Webster)
NULL, a. Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid. The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.
658 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NULLIFY.1 (Noah Webster)
NULLIFY, v.t. [L. none, and to make.] To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
659 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NULLITY.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy.
660 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OBLIGATE.2 (Noah Webster)
… and legal sense; to impose on, as a duty which the law or good faith may enforce. A man may obligate himself to pay money, or erect a house, either by bond, by covenant …