lawful

Etymology

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.

adj

1. (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
   Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.
2. Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
   Or would they have it believed, that there is in their ſelves ſome ſuperior ſanctity, ſome peculiar privilege, by which theſe things are lawful to them, which are unlawful to all the world beſides? 1776, Jeremy Bentham, “A Short Review of the Declaration”, in John Lind, An Anſwer to the Declaration of the American Congress, London: Thomas Cadell, page 121
   […] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […] 2014, George Ortega, Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial
3. (roleplaying games) Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.

noun

1. (role-playing games) A character having a lawful alignment.