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What does lawfully mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word lawfully? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. conforming to the law; legally
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Nothing the bailiff did, in attempting lawfully to levy distress, could have begun to justify a resort to violence by another person present.
The first data protection principle is that information must be used fairly and lawfully.
Property belongs to the rightful owner, to lawfully use as he or she sees fit.
Although the couple are lawfully resident in Switzerland, they do not have a permanent right of abode.
But the Court has not clearly decided whether a state law may obligate people to present identification once they are lawfully stopped.
The proprietor of a moveable subject may lawfully impignorate it for a future as well as for a present debt.

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