lawfulness in English

noun

['law·ful·ness || 'lɔːfʊlnɪs]

quality of being lawful, legality, state of being permitted by law

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1. The Bank disputes the lawfulness of this reasoning by analogy.

2. Synonyms for Constitutionality include lawfulness, legitimacy, justice, validity, legality, permissibility, authority, right, legitimateness and licitness

3. Find 12 ways to say LAwfulness, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus.

4. Furthermore, the appellants challenge the 1998 Guidelines, whose lawfulness they call into question because the Commission was allegedly not competent to adopt them (see below, section a) and those Guidelines were applied retroactively here (see below, section b).

5. Excerpt from Anti-Cavalierisme, or Truth Pleading as Well the Necessity as the Lawfulnesse of This Present Warre, for the Suppressing of That Butcherly Brood of Caveliering Incendiaries Who Are Now Hammering England to Make an Ireland of It: Wherein All the Materiall Objections Against the Lawfulness of This Undertaking, Are Fully Cleered and Answered Fourthly …

6. 19 The Court, giving a preliminary ruling on a reference from the Østre Landsret (Denmark) in another dispute between SKB and Synthon concerning the lawfulness of the DMA’s decision of 23 October 2000 authorising the marketing of Varox, held, in its judgment of 20 January 2005 in Case C-74/03 SmithKline Beecham [2005] ECR I-595, that Article 4.8(a)(iii) of Council Directive 65/65 must be interpreted as not preventing an application for marketing authorisation in respect of a medicinal product from being handled under the abridged procedure under that provision where that product contains the same therapeutic moiety as the reference product but combined with another salt.

7. 68 Secondly, it follows from case-law that, while the principles of legal certainty and of the protection of legitimate expectations require the withdrawal of an unlawful measure to occur within a reasonable time and regard must be had to how far the person concerned might have been led to rely on the lawfulness of the measure, the fact remains that such withdrawal is, in principle, permitted (see, in particular, Joined Cases 7/56 and 3/57 to 7/57 Algera and Others v Common Assembly of the ECSC [1957] ECR 39, at 55 and 56; Case 14/81 Alpha Steel v Commission [1982] ECR 749, paragraph 10; and Case 15/85 Consorzio Cooperative d’Abruzzo v Commission [1987] ECR 1005, paragraph 12).