{"id":362595,"date":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-law\/dictionary\/definition\/legitimate.html"},"modified":"2013-01-28T16:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T21:34:14","slug":"legitimate","status":"publish","type":"dictionary","link":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/legitimate.html","title":{"rendered":"Legitimate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"fl-index-heading\">\n    <p>term:<\/p>\n    <h1 class=\"fl-h1 fl-mb20\"><\/h1>\n\n    <dl class=\"fl-index-heading-description-list\">\n            <dt class=\"fl-mb10\"><p class=\"fl-text-bold\">adj<\/p><\/dt>\n        <dd><p>&#91;Medieval Latin <i>legitimatus<\/i>, past participle of <i>legitimare<\/i> to give legal status to, from Latin <i>legitimus<\/i> legally sanctioned, from <i>leg-, lex<\/i> law&#93;<br \/>  <b>1<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> conceived or born of parents lawfully married to each other or having been made through legal procedure equal in status to one so conceived or born <br \/>  <i>;also<\/i><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> having rights and obligations under the law as the child of such birth <br \/>  <b>2<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> being neither spurious nor false &#91;a grievance&#93; <br \/>  <b>3<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> being in accordance with law or with established legal forms and requirements &#91;a government&#93; <br \/>  <b>4<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> conforming to recognized principles or accepted rules and standards &#91;a claim of entitlement&#93; &#91;a business reason&#93; <br \/>  <b><i>  le&#183;git&#183;i&#183;mate&#183;ly   <i>adv<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><br \/> &#91;l&#601;-ji-t&#601;-m&#257;t&#93; vt  <b>-mat&#183;ed<\/b><br \/>  <b>-mat&#183;ing<\/b><br \/>  <b>:<\/b> to make legitimate: as <br \/>  <b>a<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to give legal status or authorization to <br \/>  <b>b<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to show or affirm to be justified or have merit <br \/>  <b>c<\/b>  <b>:<\/b> to put (an illegitimate child) in the state of a child born of married parents before the law by legal means compare <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/definition\/filiate.html\">filiate<\/a> <br \/>  <b><i>  le&#183;git&#183;i&#183;ma&#183;tion   &#91;l&#601;-ji-t&#601;-m&#257;-sh&#601;n&#93;<br \/>  <i>n<\/i><br \/>  <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n    <div class=\"fl-index-heading-source\">Source: Merriam-Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of Law \u00a91996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is &#8216;Legitimate&#8217;? Learn more about legal terms and the law at FindLaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":358119,"menu_order":0,"template":"app\/Http\/Controllers\/Templates\/DictionaryArticleController.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","_autodraft_ids":[],"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"_sb_is_suggestion_mode":false,"_sb_show_suggestion_boards":false,"_sb_show_comment_boards":false,"_sb_suggestion_history":"","_sb_update_block_changes":"","_is_real_time_mode":false,"_realtime_collaborators":"","cf_checklist_status":[]},"dictionary_tags":[],"class_list":["post-362595","dictionary","type-dictionary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/362595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dictionary"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary\/358119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dictionary_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dictionary.findlaw.com\/law-api\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dictionary_tags?post=362595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}