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Legal Age(money)
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Legal Name(money)
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legal (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: Latin legalis, from lex 'law']
if something is legal, you are allowed to do it or have to do it by law
-opposite illegal illegal
::What the company has done is perfectly legal.
::plans to make the carrying of identity cards a legal requirement
::He had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream.
::a pressure group that is campaigning to make cannabis legal .
[only before noun] concerned with or relating to the law
::free legal advice
::a costly legal dispute
::the Scottish legal system
the legal profession
(=lawyers)
legal action/proceedings
the use of the legal system to settle an argument, put right an unfair situation etc
::She threatened to take legal action against the hospital.
-see also legally