lawful person

  • 1Lawful interception — (aka wiretapping) is the interception of telecommunications by law enforcement agencies (LEA s) and intelligence services, in accordance with local law and after following due process and receiving proper authorization from competent… …

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  • 2lawful — lawful, legal, legitimate, licit mean permitted, sanctioned, or recognized by law or the law. Lawful differs from the others in implying a reference to various sorts of law (as divine law, natural law, or the law of the land, or as civil law,… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 3Lawful enemy combatant — The term lawful enemy combatant is defined in the Military Commissions Act of 2006; the term is used as an exclusionary term to prevent most of those who qualify under the definition from being an unlawful enemy combatant.Definition:(2) LAWFUL… …

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  • 4lawful\ age — • legal age • lawful age the age at which a person is allowed to do a certain thing or is held responsible for an action. In most states the legal age for voting is 27. He could not get a driver s license because he was not of lawful age …

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  • 5lawful issue — In the broader sense, all the descendants of a person; the technical equivalent of heirs of the body. 57 Am J1st Wills § 1379. Primarily words of limitation, but words of purchase where it appears on the face of a will that the clause should be… …

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  • 6lawful arrest — The taking of a person into legal custody either under a valid warrant or on probable cause for believing that he has committed a crime or under civil process which permits his arrest; e.g. capias for arrest of debtor. Term is used in connection… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 7lawful arrest — The taking of a person into legal custody either under a valid warrant or on probable cause for believing that he has committed a crime or under civil process which permits his arrest; e.g. capias for arrest of debtor. Term is used in connection… …

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  • 8lawful force — The extent of the force permitted to be used in self defense, that is, the degree of violence permitted in resisting an attack upon one s person; such degree of violence as is necessary, or is honestly and reasonably believed by the person… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 9lawful arrest — arrest that was carried out according to the law, capture of a person by police in a legal manner …

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  • 10person in loco parentis — One who has taken a position in reference to a child of that of a lawful father, assuming the office of a father and the obligation of supporting the child, assuming a parental character and discharging parental duties, although not the parent.… …

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