Validly

adv. [f. as prec. + -LY².] In a valid manner; with legal validity.

1637.  Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., III. viii. 173. One simple Presbyter … can not validly give Ordination.

1681.  Baxter, Answ. Dodwell, iv. 45. May a man be validly a Bishop,… that believeth not that there is a God?

1767.  Chauncy, Lett. (1768), 32. They may be validly commissioned to propagate the Gospel.

1791.  Boswell, Johnson, I. 137. A Highland gentleman … once consulted me if he could not validly purchase the chieftainship of his family from the chief.

1863.  H. Cox, Instit., I. v. 25. The Court of Exchequer decided that impositions on exports and imports might be validly made by proclamation.

1883.  Weekly Notes, 17 Nov., 170/2. He held that the Rule Committee were validly constituted and their power validly exercised.

  Comb.  1848.  Soames, Latin Church, i. 16, note. Nor does the tale itself necessarily imply transubstantiation … whenever a validly-ordained consecrator intended it.