lawfulness

The assurance that a fact of Covenanting is predicted is a substantial argument for its lawfulness.

It was his duty to make a return on that day; a decision as to the lawfulness of the election pertained to the house of commons.

They had ministers of their own appointment, and denied the lawfulness of oaths and of capital punishment.

The Elkins law, therefore, explicitly made the published tariff the standard of lawfulness.

In one thing, then, did Francis mishear the edict of lawfulness.