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legal (iou)



legal adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French legal or Latin legalis, from leg-, lex law: see -AL1. Cf. LEAL adjective, LOYAL.]
A. adjective.
Christian Church.
a. Of or pertaining to the Mosaic law. LME.
b. Of or pertaining to the law of works, i.e. salvation by works, as opp. to salvation by faith. Formerly also (of a person), upholding the law of works. M17.
a. Of or pertaining to law; falling within the province of law. E16.
C. Achebe The paper I signed has no legal force.
b. Belonging to or characteristic of the profession of the law. E19.
Oxford English Dictionary Whether he is a lawyer or not, he seems to have a legal mind.
a. Required or appointed by law; founded on or deriving authority from law. E17.
legal separation etc.
K. Waterhouse He has not..explicitly acknowledged her legal right to do it.
b. Recognized by law as distinguished from equity. E19.
Permitted, or not forbidden, by law; lawful. M17.
F. Astaire Betting on the animals away from the race course is legal in England.
b. Allowed by or in accordance with a particular set of rules; permissible. M20.
Pool Magazine If you got a red and three yellows on the first legal shot.
Special collocations: legal aid official assistance allowed under certain conditions towards the expense of litigation. legal beagle colloq. a lawyer, spec. one who is keen and astute. legal cap US ruled writing paper used chiefly for drafting legal documents. legal capacity a person's authority under law to engage in a particular undertaking or maintain a particular status. legal charity Hist. relief dispensed under the Poor Laws. legal eagle colloq. = legal beagle above. legal fiction an assumption that something is true even though it may be untrue, made esp. in judicial reasoning to develop the law. legal holiday US a public holiday established by law. legal man [law Latin legalis homo] a man who has full legal rights. legal memory the period of legal prescription, in England reckoned from the commencement of the reign of Richard I (1189). legal person a person who has full legal rights. legal proceedings (steps taken in) a legal action or lawsuit. legal separation: see SEPARATION 5. legal tender coin or other money which a creditor is bound by law to accept when tendered in payment of a debt.
b. noun.
A thing connected with law; a legal formality; a legal notice. E16.
Sunday Sun (Brisbane) Do your own legals. Arrange your own divorce,..will,..estates & probate.
The exact taxi fare without any tip. slang. E20.
lega'lese noun (colloq.) the abstruse and complicated language of legal documents E20.
legally adverb in a legal manner; lawfully; from the point of view of law: M16.
legalness noun (rare) legality M17.