The phrase "a proper purpose" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the legitimacy or appropriateness of a reason for an action or decision.
Example: "The committee must ensure that any funding is allocated for a proper purpose, such as community development or educational programs."
Alternatives: "an appropriate reason" or "a legitimate aim".
Delaware law gives shareholders the right to inspect books and records of a corporation for "a proper purpose".
He adds: What's interesting about the police's defence is the factual detail given in support of the argument that the stop was for a proper purpose.
It is not a proper purpose of the remedy in this case to enable leading software companies like IBM, AOL/Netscape, Novell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems to appropriate Microsoft's inventions and innovations free of charge.
But in his response to the appellate court's order calling for briefs on the recusal motion, Judge Wolin indirectly questioned the motives of the creditors, noting that it is his role "to ensure that any motion before it is presented for a proper purpose and not for purposes of delay or other, self-serving ends".
Rendering express what is only implicit in the majority opinion, Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg are forthright in declaring that the two procedures are indistinguishable and that Nebraska has acted both irrationally and without a proper purpose in enacting the law.
Loeb cited Delaware corporation law that allows a shareholder to inspect a company's books if that person has a proper purpose and meets procedural requirements.
Communicating with Vungle shareholders with respect to their interest in purchasing or selling Vungle stock or in a change in the board of directors is an entirely proper purpose for Mr. Jaffer's request to inspect the shareholder information that will enable him to make these communications.
The right may be exercised at any time during the period of detention and may be exercised repeatedly, although not in a manner which frustrates the proper purpose of the examination.
"The activists themselves have declared that that is their objective – to use the courts not for the proper purpose of resolving a dispute between citizens, but for a collateral political purpose of bringing developments to a standstill, and sacrificing the jobs of tens of thousands of Australians in the process," Brandis said.
In other words, an education would interfere with her proper purpose in the community, which is to spend the rest of her life scrubbing a caravan".
Put to its proper purpose – the addition of a little healthy colour and added dimension – it does its job admirably.
