| Ironically this process was endorsed and socially legitimised by the Varna system. |
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| When communities can't control the influx of outsiders and the outsiders are legitimised by central authorities then there is a problem. |
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| This long campaign of leaking, backgrounding and sabotage would be legitimised. |
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| Church law legitimised children born out of wedlock whose parents subsequently married. |
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| The world of cage fighting has been legitimised, but not homogenised. |
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| Chartered companies were usually formed, incorporated and legitimised under a royal or, in republics, an equivalent government charter. |
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| John Beaufort had been illegitimate at birth, though later legitimised by the marriage of his parents. |
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| The first monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster. |
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| The Lancastrian regime was founded and legitimised by formal lying that was both public and official. |
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| It legitimised transportation as a direct sentence, thus simplifying the penal process. |
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| To many, the presence of a male heir legitimised her place as ruler. |
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| The children of John and Katherine, while legitimised, were barred from inheriting the English throne, a stricture that was ignored in later generations. |
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| The Beauforts were originally bastards, but Henry IV legitimised them on the condition that their descendants were not eligible to inherit the throne. |
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| Henry IV's action was of doubtful legality, as the Beauforts were previously legitimised by an Act of Parliament, but it further weakened Henry's claim. |
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