legal

Speech parts

1. legal - Noun

2. legal - Adjective

3. legal - Adjective Satellite

4. Legal - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.

Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.

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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. Frédéric Bastiat

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. Guy de Maupassant

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart. Romeo LeBlanc

If thoughts were legal witnesses, many an honest man would be proved a rogue. Danish Proverb

The man who takes legal action often loses an ox to win a cat. Romanian Proverb

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