Word Finder - legal

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The legal department of a company.

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Legal wants this in writing.

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Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).

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A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

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Somebody who immigrated lawfully.

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Relating to the law or to lawyers.

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legal profession

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Having its basis in the law.

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legal precedent

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Being allowed or prescribed by law.

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legal motion

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Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.

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(of paper or document layouts) Measuring 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm) (also legal-size).

Even though she had made most of the payments on the land, he still had legal claim.

I don't like messing with the legal system.

Everything was perfectly legal and taxes paid.

A legal jack must travel at least 25 yds.

Between this point and the time when equity became settled as a portion of the legal system, having fixed principles of its own, various views of its nature seem to have prevailed.

In many places, we have ended the legal discrimination of people based on race.

They institute legal protection for copyrights, patents, and trademarks.

No place legal I can think of.

With regard to legal matters, immediately after the fires he gave orders to find and execute the incendiaries.

It's just that courthouses and judges and all that legal stuff have bum memories.

Is that even legal?

Positive law, at least in progressive societies, is constantly tending to fall behind public opinion, and the expedients adopted for bringing it into harmony therewith are three, viz, legal fictions, equity and statutory legislation.

A legal jack should not be interfered with except by the course of play.

I have no intention of leaving and, if you'll check your law, you have no legal right to toss me out.

All the public acts and judicial decisions of one province have full legal effect and authority in all the others.

As a tribunal it had no legal status.

As he was intended for the legal profession, he spent some years in attendance on the law classes.

According to Shafi`ite law, such a cadi must be a male, free, adult Moslem, intelligent, of unassailed character, able to see, hear and write, learned in the Koran, the traditions, the Agreement, the differences of the legal schools, acquainted with Arabic grammar and the exegesis of the Koran.

Certain concordats deal with the orders and congregations of monks and nuns with a view to subjecting them to a certain control while securing to them the legal exercise of their activities.

The reserves of the active army are composed of those who have served the legal period in the active army.

It is thus different from legal fiction, by which a new rule is introduced surreptitiously, and under the pretence that no change has been made in the law, and from statutory legislation, in which the obligatory force of the rule is not supposed to depend upon its intrinsic fitness.

This centralization was, however, for the time not so much legal as doctrinal.

He was a priest of the Jerusalem temple, probably a member of the dominant house of Zadok, and doubtless had the literary training of the cultivated priesthood of the time, including acquaintance with the national historical, legal and ritual traditions and with the contemporary history and customs of neighbouring peoples.

The Court of Cassation does not give the ultimate decision on a case; it pronounces, not on the question of fact, but on the legal principle at issue, or the competence of the court giving the original decision.

The average number of weeks in the "legal schools" (about 95% of the public schools) was 32 weeks in 1907-1908.

The administration of the act was entrusted to the pharmaceutical society, and the duty of prosecuting unauthorized practitioners has been performed by the society ever since, without any pecuniary assistance from the state, although the legal expenses involved in prosecution amount to a considerable portion of its income.

Even Norman lawlessness in some sort took a legal shape.

Its members had no legal advantages over other citizens.

The privileges which the Venetian nobility took to themselves were established by acts which, if not legal, were at least formal.

Where this power exists the nobility is no longer in any strictness an aristocracy; it may have great privileges, great influence, even great legal powers, but it is not the real ruling body, like the true aristocracy of Venice.

The esquires, knights, lesser barons, even the remote descendants of peers, that is, the noblesse of other countries, in England remained gentlemen, but not noblemen - simple commoners, that is, without legal advantage over their fellowcommoners who had no jus imaginum to boast of.

That coat-armour has been lavishly granted and often assumed without right, that the word "gentleman" has acquired various secondary senses, proves nothing; that is the natural result of a state of things in which the status of gentry carries with it no legal advantage, and yet is eagerly sought after on social grounds.

And even in a democratic commonwealth the sentiment of nobility may exist, though all legal privilege has been abolished or has never existed.

What constituted in this primitive system of inheritance the strength of a claim was often not easily determined, and even when the legal question was clear enough the law was not always respected by the contending parties.

Religion under the Christian emperors became a significant source of discrimination in legal status, and non-conformity might reach so far as to produce complete loss of rights.

British coin is legal tender (since 1905).

The colony had no legal existence at the time, but was then incorporated as the "Roman Catholic Religious Society of St Nazianz," and as such sued successfully for the bequest.

Medieval Englishmen were particularly apt to put their aspirations into a legal form, and then rest satisfied with their achievement.

The Bonapartes, on the other hand, had long concerned themselves with legal affairs at Ajaccio or in the coast towns of the island.

It was performed by Fesch, now a cardinal; but Napoleon could afterwards urge the claim that all the legal formalities had not bten complied with; and the motive for the marriage may probably be found in the refusal of the pope to appear at the coronation unless the former civil contract was replaced by the religious rite.

True to his Corsican instinct of attachment to the family, and contempt for legal and dynastic claims, he now began to plant his brothers and other relatives in what had been republics established by the French Jacobins.

Henry, shortly after his own accession to the throne of France, recognized Pithou's talents and services by bestowing upon him various legal appointments.

Pithou wrote a great number of legal and historical books, besides preparing editions of several ancient authors.

An isolated use of the word " catholic " as a secular legal term survives in Scots law; a catholic creditor is one whose debt is secured over several or over all of the subjects belonging to the debtor.

After a short interval Cambaceres was, by the constitution of December 1799, appointed second consul of France - a position which he owed largely to his vast legal knowledge and to the conviction which Sieyes entertained of his value as a manipulator of public assemblies.

The emperor could confer liberty by presenting a gold ring to a slave with the consent of the master, and the legal process called restitutio natalium made him a full citizen.

In 1828 the free people of colour in the colonies were placed on a footing of legal equality with their fellow-citizens.

The nature of the engagements to go and work on the plantations was not fully explained to them, and they were hired for periods exceeding the legal term.

In February 1784 Wesley's deed of declaration gave the conference a legal constitution.

The success of the Vindiciae finally decided him to give up the medical for the legal profession.