legitimus (general term): legibus constitutus (fixed by law): justus (in conformity to or allowed by law): a lawful punishment, poena legitima or legibus constituta: a lawful debt, debitum justum (which one is bound by law to pay): a lawful marriage, nuptiae legitimae or justae: children of a lawful marriage, liberi legitimi, or justa uxore nati, or matre familias orti (opposed to this, pellice orti): a lawful government, imperium legitimum: in a lawful manner, lege (e.g., agere): to act in a lawful manner, legibus parere, leges sequi (PROP.); officii praecepta moribus ac vita exprimere (morally speaking, to obey the laws of duty).