单词 | lawful heir |
释义 | > as lemmaslawful heir a. Appointed, sanctioned, or recognized by law; legally qualified or entitled. Now chiefly in certain traditional collocations, as lawful heir, lawful king, lawful money, lawful parliament, lawful sovereign, lawful succession, lawful title; also, lawful captive, lawful prey, lawful prize, (to be) lawful game. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > [adjective] righteOE kindc1300 rightfulc1330 truec1384 righteous1391 lawfula1400 just?1435 legitimec1450 legitimatea1460 verya1466 justc1540 reable1581 sib1701 competent1765 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 26903 Noght allan for his ald plight..Or for þas oþer the quilk he bette Bot noght wit penance laghful sett. 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 122 xx markes of laufull money. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 98 Forȝeue þi lawefull accyoun, & seke ferst loue. 1456 Extracts Rec. in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 111 Geyf thar was ony lachful ar to that land. 1526 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 402 No carpenter nor masson shall have no workeman but that which shallbe laufull workeman in that sience [sic]. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 393 His eldest sone..to his place suld succeid As lauchtfull air. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxv Lawfull succession. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxliij Yf they haue any lawful impediment. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 2 Thre Questionis, tweching the lauchful vocatioun of Iohne Knox. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvi. 118 He being Crownit in lauchfull Parliament. 1581 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xliv. 101 That lauchfull pastors of the Kirk sould be depryuit. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. ii. 51 If it proue lawfull prize, hee's made for euer. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 95 Thou hast vnder-wrought his lawfull King. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 165 A Banished man, is a lawfull enemy of the Common-wealth. 1763 Rec. Colony Rhode Island (1861) VI. 359 All mortgages, bonds, [etc.]..wherein the payment of money is..promised, shall be taken and understood to mean lawful money. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iii. 108 They will consider her as lawful game. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. 69 Prize vessels..condemned in any courts of admiralty or vice-admiralty as lawful prize. 1806 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. VI. 257 So that my executrix shall pay in good time all lawful debts. 1817 W. Selwyn Abridgem. Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 854 Having no lawful impediment. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xvii. 54 Himself in his own reading of the law, a lawful King. < as lemmas |
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