Legitimacy, from the
Latin
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''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, ...
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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 a concept which turns brute force into power. The Rights, right and acceptance of an authority, usually a governing law or a regime, at least formally, are impossible to be built on one's brute force, or to coe ...
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Bastard (law of England and Wales)
In the law of England and Wales, a bastard (also historically called whoreson, although both of these terms have largely dropped from common usage) is an illegitimate child, one whose parents were not Marriage, married at the time of their bir ...
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''Illegitimate'' (film), a 2016 Romanian film
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Illegitimacy in fiction
This is a list of fictional stories in which illegitimacy features as an important plot (narrative), plot element. Passing mentions are omitted from this article. Many of these stories explore the social pain and exclusion felt by illegitimate "n ...
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Legit (disambiguation)
Legit, a slang abbreviation of the word '' legitimate'', may refer to:
* Legit (professional wrestling)
* ''Legit'' (2006 TV series), a Scottish sitcom
* ''Legit'' (2013 TV series), created by comedian Jim Jefferies
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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 carnival
Carnival (known as Shrovetide in certain localities) is a festive season that o ...
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Legitimate expectation
The doctrine of legitimate expectation was first developed in English law as a ground of judicial review in administrative law to protect a procedural or substantive interest when a public authority rescinds from a representation made to a pers ...
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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 Dicti ...
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Legitimation
Legitimation, legitimization ( US), or legitimisation ( UK) 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 val ...
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Legitime
In civil law and Roman law, the legitime (), also known as a forced share or legal right share, of a decedent's estate is that portion of the estate from which they cannot disinherit their children, or their parents, without sufficient legal ca ...
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Legitimists (disambiguation)
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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 as qualif ...
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 terminology was already used in Rome by Cicero as a metaphor referring to the "fountain" ("fons" in Latin) of law. Technically, anything ...
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