lawful

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   conformable to or allowed by law

   lawful methods of dissent

2. 2
   adj

   Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.

   Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.

3. 3
   adj

   Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.

   Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides?

4. 4
   adj

   authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law

5. 5
   adj

   having a legally established claim

6. 6
   adj

   according to custom or rule or natural law

7. 7
   adj

   Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.

8. 8
   noun

   A character having a lawful alignment.

Etymology

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.