| The world of cage fighting has been legitimised, but not homogenised. |
| The children of John and Katherine, while legitimised, were barred from inheriting the English throne, a stricture that was ignored in later generations. |
| Chartered companies were usually formed, incorporated and legitimised under a royal or, in republics, an equivalent government charter. |
| Church law legitimised children born out of wedlock whose parents subsequently married. |
| Ironically this process was endorsed and socially legitimised by the Varna system. |
| It legitimised transportation as a direct sentence, thus simplifying the penal process. |
