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Legal   /lˈigəl/   Listen
adjective
Legal  adj.  
1.
Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.
2.
(Theol.)
(a)
According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.
(b)
According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
3.
(Law) Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.
Legal cap. See under Cap.
Legal tender.
(a)
The act of tendering in the performance of a contract or satisfaction of a claim that which the law prescribes or permits, and at such time and place as the law prescribes or permits.
(b)
That currency, or money, which the law authorizes a debtor to tender and requires a creditor to receive. It differs in different countries.
Synonyms: Lawful; constitutional; legitimate; licit; authorized. See Lawful.





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"Legal" Quotes from Famous Books



... legal term for the large area granted as a "reward" to the miner who first discovers valuable gold in a new district, and reports it to the Warden of the Goldfields. The first great discovery of gold in Coolgardie was ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... simply by the action of her own heart, as though nothing outside,—no ceremony, no ordinance,—could affect it. The same argument would enable her to live with John Caldigate after he should come out of prison, even though, as would then be the case, another woman would have the legal right of calling herself Mrs. John Caldigate! On the previous day she had declared that if she could not be his wife, she would be his mistress. The mother knew what she meant,—that, let people call her by what name they might, she would still be her husband's wife in the eye of God. ...
— John Caldigate • Anthony Trollope
... are too modest. As they say in churches, the newest convert has the strongest opinions. Now, you know what my business is. Strong opinions amount to everything in the legal business, and so I have come to you, just as squarely as I could go to any man in the world about anything else that he understood, to ask you plainly what you know about this new life that you are said to be leading now. Tell it to me, out and ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton
... curtain lecture; and what is the good of giving a man a lot of power where he only wants a little peace? The child must depend on the most imperfect mother; the mother may be devoted to the most unworthy children; in such relations legal revenges are vain. Even in the abnormal cases where the law may operate, this difficulty is constantly found; as many a bewildered magistrate knows. He has to save children from starvation by taking ...
— What's Wrong With The World • G.K. Chesterton
... conveyance to the Royal Institution was to be null and void; and the estate and endowment were to revert to his widow, and after her death to her first husband's nephew, Francis Desrivieres and to his legal heirs. He named as executors of the will John Richardson, James Reid, ...
— McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 • Cyrus Macmillan


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