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legal aid

  1. free legal service to persons unable to pay for a lawyer.


legal aid

  1. a means-tested benefit in the form of financial assistance for persons to meet the cost of advice and representation in legal proceedings


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Word History and Origins

Origin of legal aid1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

You informed me that it was your legal aid who recognized the rider and shared with you her identity, not an employee of Uber.

Estevez was summoned to speak with her Legal Aid attorney in a glass booth on the left side of the courtroom.

In the Congo, she provided legal aid to victims of the devastating civil war.

The Indonesia Legal Aid Foundation is a pro-democracy group that advocates for individuals in the criminal justice system.

And I discovered that Marstan had been killed in an automobile accident on the day when he had come into town for legal aid.

Should you invoke legal aid to free you from merely nominal matrimonial bonds, I prefer you should then resume your father's name.

Following the "Legal Aid" line, Cyrus's mind took a sudden but logical jump.

And Major Hewitt kept his word, and hastened to secure the best legal aid to be had for Governor.

Her father might not understand all the fine points, and need some legal aid.

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