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ˈlaw-ˌworthy, a. ? Hist.
Also law-worth.
[f. law n.1 + worthy: a modern rendering of OE. þæra laᵹa weorðe (þe, etc.), ‘worthy of (i.e. entitled to) the laws (which, etc.).’]
a. Of persons: Having a standing in the law-courts; possessed of full legal rights.
b. Of things: Within the purview of the law; able to be dealt with by a court of law.
[1066–75Charter Will. I to Lond. in Stubbs Select Charters 83 Ic wylle þat ᵹet beon eallra þæra laᵹa weorðe þe ᵹyt wæran in Eadwerdes dæᵹe kynges.] 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) II. 277 The strongest proof of his being, as it was called, law-worthy, and possessing a rank. 1857Toulm. Smith Parish 21 The inquiry having been made by the oath of good and law-worth men of the neighbourhood. 1884W. O'C. Morris in Contemp. Rev. Feb. 177 This enormous and growing mass of property was not lawworthy under English law. 1896― Ireland x. 333 The claims, however, which in fact approached a joint ownership over millions of acres, continued, as before, to be not law-worthy: they had never been recognized by the State. |