lawfulness

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Lawfulness of Utilizing Knowledge of Secret.—One is said to use the knowledge obtained from a secret when one guides one's conduct by the knowledge, doing or omitting what one would not otherwise do or omit.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

The tea tax was small, but as Bland had said of the Pistole Fee, "the question then ought not to be the smallness of the demand, but the Lawfulness of it."

From The Road to Independence: Virginia 1763-1783 by Virginia. History, Government, and Geography Service

The remaining treatises are on Religious Communion, Exercise of Prophecy, and the Lawfulness of Hearing Ministers of the Church of England.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

His latest work, "found in his studie after his decease," was "A Treatise of the Lawfulness of Hearing of the Ministers in the Church of England."

From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey

There are that Question the Lawfulness of the Experiment.

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton