Synonyms for licit:
adj. legal
Examples of uses:
To the vice of luxury was she so abandoned that lust she made licit in her law, to take away the blame she had incurred.
source
Title: Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern Volume 11, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25015/25015-h/25015-h.htm
His only act was to return a negative answer to the question whether it was licit to employ diabolic arts to save the city.
source
Title: A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4, author: Henry Charles Lea, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44209/44209-h/44209-h.htm
It remained for Aristotle to invent a genuine method of sorting out a licit from an illicit type of argument.
source
Title: Authors of Greece, author: T. W. Lumb, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8115/8115-h/8115-h.htm
There are three fundamental conditions: 1, the consent; 2, a licit cause; 3, the capacity of the contracting parties.
source
Title: Elements of Morals, author: Paul Janet, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/37016/37016-h/37016-h.htm
To make such a double-effect action licit there are four conditions which are explained in the chapter on Mutilation.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
Indirect mutilation may be licit when the evil to be avoided is proportional to the mutilation.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
The good of the body is the sole cause that renders direct mutilation licit.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
Even if this forcible delivery should happen to hasten somewhat the mother's death, the action would be morally licit.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
This is a clear case of double effect immediately issuing from the same cause, and the operation is morally licit.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
Because it is not licit to inflict a grave mutilation to avert a possible or probable future evil.
source
Title: The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation, author: Austin O'Malley, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42764/42764-h/42764-h.htm
