Legitimacy, from the
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
''legitimare'' meaning "to make lawful", may refer to:
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Legitimacy (criminal law)
In law, "legitimacy" is distinguished from "legality" (see also color of law). An action can be legal but not legitimate or vice versa it can be legitimate but not legal.
Thomas Hilbink suggests that the power to compel obedience to the law, i ...
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Legitimacy (family law)
Legitimacy, in traditional Western common law, is the status of a child born to parents who are legally married to each other, and of a child conceived before the parents obtain a legal divorce. Conversely, ''illegitimacy'', also known as '' ...
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Legitimacy (political)
In political science, legitimacy is the right and acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a regime. Whereas ''authority'' denotes a specific position in an established government, the term ''legitimacy'' denotes a system of gover ...
See also
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Bastard (law of England and Wales)
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Illegitimacy in fiction
This is a list of fictional stories in which illegitimacy features as an important plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this article. Many of these stories explore the social pain and exclusion felt by illegitimate "natural children" ...
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Legit (disambiguation)
''Legit'' is a slang abbreviation of '' legitimate''. It may also refer to:
* Legit (professional wrestling)
* ''Legit'' (2006 TV series), Scottish sitcom
* ''Legit'' (2013 TV series), created by comedian Jim Jefferies
* Legit Ballin', a record ...
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Legitimate (professional wrestling)
Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable amount of jargon throughout its existence. Much of it stems from the industry's origins in the days of carnivals and circuses. In the past, professional wrestlers used such terms in the presence o ...
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Legitimate expectation
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Legitimate peripheral participation Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) describes how newcomers become experienced members and eventually old timers of a community of practice or collaborative project . LPP identifies learning as a contextual social phenomenon, achieved through ...
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Legitimate theater
Legitimate theatre is live performance that relies almost entirely on diegetic elements, with actors performing through speech and natural movement.Joyce M. Hawkins and Robert Allen, eds. "Legitimate" entry. ''The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dict ...
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Legitimation
Legitimation or legitimisation is the act of providing legitimacy. Legitimation in the social sciences refers to the process whereby an act, process, or ideology becomes legitimate by its attachment to norms and values within a given society. I ...
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Legitime
In civil law and Roman law, the legitime (''legitima portio''), also known as a forced share or legal right share, of a decedent's estate is that portion of the estate from which he cannot disinherit his children, or his parents, without suffic ...
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Legitimists (disambiguation)
Legitimists may refer to:
*Legitimists, Royalists in France who believe that the King of France and Navarre must be chosen according to the simple application of the Salic Law
*Jacobitism, the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the ...
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Nomen illegitimum
''Nomen illegitimum'' (Latin for illegitimate name) is a technical term, used mainly in botany. It is usually abbreviated as ''nom. illeg.'' Although the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants uses Latin terms for other ki ...
in botany is a valid published name that contravenes the international articles
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Sources of law
Sources of law are the origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory.
The term "source of law" may sometimes refer to the sovereign or to the seat of power from which the law derives its validity.
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