Legitimate
(adj) Legitimate is the term used to qualify an action, event or thing etc which satisfies all the legal adherence required for such action, event, things etc to be a legally existing and sustainable in the eyes of law. Eg..
Legitimate - That which is legal, lawful, recognized by law or according to law.
Leniency - Recommendation for a sentence less than the maximum allowed.
Legitimate: Real; bona fide; reasonable.
Lemon law: A law enacted to protect purchasers of new and/or used automobiles when the vehicle requires frequent repairs and does not operate properly.
legitimate
adj., adv1) legal, proper, real. 2) referring to a child born to parents who are married. A baby born to parents who are not married is illegitimate, but can be made legitimate (legitimatized) by the subsequent marriage of the parents.
legitimated Most countries have legal procedures for natural fathers of children born out of wedlock to acknowledge their children. A legitimated child from any country has two legal parents and cannot qualify as ...
LEGITIMATE. That which is according to law; as, legitimate children, are lawful children, born in wedlock, in contradistinction to bastards; legitimate autbority, or lawful power, in opposition to usurpation.
ILLEGITIMATE CHILD -- A child born to parties who are not married to each other.
Legitimate children, dying without issue, and leaving a parent, cannot disinherit him or her, unless for the seven following causes: 1. If the parent has accused the child of a capital crime except, however, the crime of high treason. 2.
Legitimate filiation
Definition - Noun
in the civil law of Louisiana : filiation created by a child being born during a marriage or adopted
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Legitimate (legal term)
Bastardy Action (legal term)
The Bar Sinister (1917 Drama Film)
Hearts of Youth (1921 Film)
Culpable (1960 Film)
Intermediate Scrutiny
Suspect Classification
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legitimate use or reproduction of part or all of copyright (q.v.) material by someone other than the copyright owner, for defined purposes.
false imprisonment
Confinement of a person without legal permission.
A legitimate reason. Often used in the employment context to refer to the reasons why someone was fired.
Justiciable:
Issues and claims capable of being properly examined by the court.
Bastard
An illegitimate child, born in a relationship between two persons that are not married (ie. not in wedlock) or who are not married at the time of the child's birth.
Bench
A judge in court session.
Just cause: a legitimate reason.
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An illegitimate child, born of a relationship between two persons not married (i.e., not in wedlock) to each other, or who are not married to each other at the time of the child's birth. Conception out of wedlock does not usually constitute bastardy.
JUST CAUSE: A legitimate reason. Often used in the employment context to refer to the reasons why someone was fired.
Expanded Legal Definition of CrownCruelty Conduct that causes bodily or mental injury, or apprehension to such injury, to a person or an animal, without legitimate purpose.
For example, a de jure government is one which has been created in respect of constitutional law and is in all ways legitimate even though a de facto government may be in control.
Caution should be exercised before filing a lis pendens, however, for unless there exist legitimate claims in the property adverse to those of the owner of record, ...
"The 118 novel of Justinian has a striking resemblance to American law in giving the succession of estates to all legitimate children without distinction and disregarding all considerations of primogeniture.
The federal law that legitimated the concept of the whistle-blower, the False Claims Act (1863, revised 1986), was created to combat fraud by suppliers to the federal government during the Civil War.
of legitimate public interest. However, an otherwise non-public individual has a right to privacy from: a) intrusion on one's solitude or into one's private affairs; b) public disclosure of embarrassing private information; c) publicity which puts ...
The child of an unwed mother may be considered an orphan, as long as the mother does not marry (which would result in the childÌs having a stepfather) and as long as the childÌs biological father has not legitimated the child.
Convention n°158 of the International Labour Organization states that an employee "can't be fired without any legitimate motive" and "before offering him the possibility to defend himself".
Federal registration of trademarks involves the establishment of rights in a mark based on legitimate use of the mark.
A void marriage is one which can never be legitimate. New York recognizes three types of marriages which are always void : incestuous marriages (DRL 5) , ...
Presumption of Validity: A presumption created by statute that a patent is legitimate and sound-in-law. The burden of establishing that a patent is invalid is always on the challenger.
3. A public recognition by a man of an illegitimate child as his own.
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Actionable A situation where enough facts or circumstances exist to meet the legal requirements to file a legitimate lawsuit. If the facts required to prove a case cannot be alleged in the complaint, the case is not actionable.
Wedlock
Being married. Has the same meaning as "matrimony." Used mostly to refer to illegitimate children as "born out of wedlock."
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The criteria for statehood is controversial, with political and legal divisions over which criteria are declaratory versus determinative of the formation of a legitimate state.
putative father The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child.
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quash To annul or make void; e.g., to quash a writ or a search warrant.
NATURAL CHILDREN.
In the phraseology of the English or American law, natural children are children born out of wedlock, or bastards, and are distinguished from legitimate... more ...
the spouse suing for divorce does not have to prove that the other spouse did something wrong in order to be granted the right to legally end the marriage. In most states, a spouse must simply state a reason that the state recognizes as legitimate, ...
by means of: threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power, giving or receiving of payments or benefits Traffickers frequently recruit victims through false advertisements promising legitimate jobs as ...
against the plaintiff by the defendant; (2) an act by the defendant in the use of process that would not be proper in the regular prosecution of the claim; (3) a primary motive by the defendant in misusing the process to achieve an illegitimate end; ...
upon matter of law is called a "demurrer:" it confesses the facts to be true as stated by the opposite party, but denies that, by the law arising upon those facts, any injury is done to the plaintiff, or that the defendant has made out a legitimate ...
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