Definition of "lawfully" []

• Conforming to the law; legally (adverb)

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• "There he would show some old letters of marque, swear that he was a privateer, and had captured the goods lawfully from the enemy, for the world was always at war in those days."
• "Both follow last year’s Grand Chamber ruling in Liga Portuguesa and hold that the Member States are allowed to restrict online gambling within their jurisdictions even when the would-be supplier of such services is doing so lawfully from a different Member State."
• "When any person puts himself both above and against the law, then the people are entitled lawfully to rise up - violently if necessary - to overthrow the tyrant, the self-proclaimed dictator."