In a legitimate manner, properly.

In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements. / Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid. / Authentic, real, genuine.

A person born to a legally married couple.

(transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

(transitive) To make legitimate.

The process of legitimizing, of making legitimate and/or legal.

(law) Common in Continental Law jurisdictions, a portion of property fixed by law, which a testator with issue is bound to bequeath to his children.

The process of making or declaring a person legitimate. / (obsolete) Legitimacy. / The act of establishing something as lawful; authorization.

plural of legitime

(law) That portion of a parent's estate of which he cannot disinherit his children without a legal cause.