legalize

legalize
To make legal or lawful. Wight v. New Jersey Racing Commission, 128 N.J.L. 517, 26 A.2d 709, 712.
To confirm or validate what was before void or unlawful. To add the sanction and authority of law to that which before was without or against law.
See also legitimate, v

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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