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Example sentences for "lawfully"

Lexicographically close words:
lawer; lawes; lawful; lawfull; lawfullie; lawfulness; lawgiver; lawgivers; lawiers; lawing
  1. Between the Court of the Gentiles and the inner courts rose a wall twenty-five cubits high; this marked the boundary of the more sacred precincts within which no Gentile could be lawfully admitted.

  2. Now, how can they be appointed unless lawfully done, and who is to judge of such legality?

  3. I might have disposed of your question more briefly by simply saying that no contingency provided by the Constitution ever existed in which Mr. Tilden could lawfully or properly take the oath of office as President.

  4. Edward, Mary, Elizabeth, therefore all reigned lawfully by virtue of their father’s will.

  5. A moment’s thought will show that Mary and Elizabeth could not both reign lawfully according to any doctrine of hereditary succession.

  6. Uncle Rawson said that long hair might, he judged, be lawfully worn, where the bodily health did require it, to guard the necks of weakly people from the cold.

  7. When I use the expression "the Will of the People lawfully and constitutionally expressed," I use it to avoid this false democracy.

  8. By using the phrase "lawfully expressed" I do not mean to suggest any pretext for evasion.

  9. The throne of Great Britain cannot be lawfully abdicated unless with the consent of the two Houses of Parliament.

  10. At a proprietor's meeting, lawfully warned and held at my dwelling-house in Lyme in the province above said, voted to lay out to the use and benefit of Dartmouth College fifteen hundred acres of land, .

  11. It is the sure mark of a low civilization, a low morality, to abuse or discriminate against or in any way humiliate such stranger who has come here lawfully and who is conducting himself properly.

  12. Such lawfully expressed and deliberate judgment should be given effect by the courts, save in the extreme and exceptional cases where there has been a clear violation of a constitutional provision.

  13. Liquor was sold at all groceries, but it could not be lawfully sold in a smaller quantity than one quart.

  14. Lawfully to do this required a tavern license; and it is a warrantable conclusion that such was the chief aim of Berry and Lincoln in procuring a franchise of this character.

  15. One party to a contract may violate it--break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?

  16. But if the destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less than before, the Constitution having lost the vital element of perpetuity.

  17. Having never been States either in substance or in name outside of the Union, whence this magical omnipotence of State rights, asserting a claim of power to lawfully destroy the Union itself?

  18. The sophism itself is that any State of the Union may, consistently with the nation's Constitution, and therefore lawfully and peacefully, withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State.

  19. In the purchase of relics, the saint would have started at the guilt of simony; but if the mode of expression were changed, he might lawfully repay the debt, accept the gift, and acknowledge the obligation.

  20. The right of victory, unshackled by any promise or treaty, had confiscated the public and private wealth of the Greeks; and every hand, according to its size and strength, might lawfully execute the sentence and seize the forfeiture.

  21. I would gladly know whether in some Cases a Cudgel may not be allowed as a good Figure of Speech, and whether it may not be lawfully used by a Female Orator.

  22. What then was the smallest number which could lawfully surprise an enemy?

  23. And then, further, delivering the Bible into the hand of each: “Take thou authority to preach the Word of God, and to minister the Holy Sacraments in the congregation where thou shalt be lawfully appointed thereunto.

  24. How, then, we may lawfully inquire, can that which is spoken of in such a way ever be changed or improved?

  25. Their fear of any purpose to "expel them from their lands and dominions lawfully possessed" was to be dispelled by a promise "to conserve them as their own.

  26. This doctrine that workingmen may lawfully organize trade unions has since Commonwealth v.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lawfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.