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permitted by law; lawful: Such acts are not legal.

of or pertaining to law; connected with the law or its administration: the legal profession.

appointed, established, or authorized by law; deriving authority from law.

recognized by law rather than by equity.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the profession of law or of lawyers: a legal mind.

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Theology.

of or pertaining to the Mosaic Law.

of or pertaining to the doctrine that salvation is gained by good works rather than through free grace.

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noun

a person who acts in a legal manner or with legal authority.

an alien who has entered a country legally.

a person whose status is protected by law.

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a fish or game animal, within specified size or weight limitations, that the law allows to be caught and kept during an appropriate season.

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a foreigner who conducts espionage against a host country while working there in a legitimate capacity, often in the diplomatic service.

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legals, authorized investments that may be made by fiduciaries, as savings banks or trustees.

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Origin:
1490–1500; < Latin lēgālis of the law, equivalent to lēg- (stem of lēx) law + -ālis -al¹

Related forms

le·gal·ly, adverb

post·le·gal, adjective

pre·le·gal, adjective

pseu·do·le·gal, adjective

qua·si-le·gal, adjective

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qua·si-le·gal·ly, adverb

un·le·gal, adjective

un·le·gal·ly, adverb

un·le·gal·ness, noun

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Synonyms
3. licit, legitimate, sanctioned.

Example Sentences

The world has outrun the courts, and legal technicalities have outlived their usefulness.

There is legal precedent that could work against the officers in this instance.

The legal business has undergone not only recession but also structural change.

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The world has outrun the courts, and legal technicalities have outlived their usefulness.

There is legal precedent that could work against the officers in this instance.

The legal business has undergone not only recession but also structural change.

Growing not from politicians, but from everyday people, it swept away legal slavery.

He will definitely be trying to find personal loans to get legal advice if accusations of fraud are to continue.

What is legal is not necessarily what is moral or what is fair.

When a search-engine-optimization company launches a legal attack against a small web publisher, onlookers smell something fishy.

The legal tussle, which appears to be headed to trial, is getting ugly.

The numbers would seem to indicate that the law does not discriminate against legal residents, she said.

Such a rule might encourage employers not to hire at all, for fear of legal action.

Fossil collecting on private land, with the permission of the landowner, is legal.

Englebert cites some of the legal demands as hampering the usefulness of these programs.

Even though the company decided to print a date on the package, a judge dismissed the date as not having any legal worth.

Dear music industry: legal trickiness may help you win cases, buy plays out in a larger moral context outside the courtroom.

There are no clear precedents, so you've got to figure out how to search for relevant concepts in a legal database.

The legal commitment in marriage is entirely one sided.

Recent legal rulings block several development projects in bid to enhance water quality.

However, the legal precedent created by not needing to disclose how our food is made is extremely dangerous.

These tales have spawned legal battles, comics-page yarns, and endless dinner-table diversion.

The company that owns the file-sharing software is embroiled in legal battles all over the world.

The answer is not more repression, but more flexibilization of legal entry requirements and temporary work programmes.

The family sees little resolution of its troubles, except through the legal system.

After two years it looked as if he might have to face a decade or so of legal thumb-twiddling.

It was ill-fated legal jockeying to skirt the immunity legislation.

For one thing, the current mission is indisputably legal.

Courts have historically been impressed with the legal testimony of experts simply because of their credentials.

Obletz's ownership was held up in a five-year legal battle, which he lost.

The girl's courageous act-and the landmark legal battle that ensued-turned her into an international heroine for women's rights.

Even if financial obstacles are overcome, a legal challenge looms.

The birds have enjoyed legal protection over the last century, and their numbers have increased substantially.

But as a legal issue, it is relatively newLegal experts cite the enactment of.

Years of frustration over a system of legal education that has changed little.

But legal and scientific forces are now skeptically.

As the technology of voice communications has advanced, government surveillance has raised many legal issues.

Understanding teen brain immaturity against the background of rising hormones is changing education and legal practice.

In reality, our legal system usually leaves us wiggle room.

What legal access to the drug might do to usage and abuse levels.

Years of frustration over a system of legal education.

Beyond such differences in legal cultures, one fact is inescapable.

The question of public access to information, including legal information, is becoming a contentious issue at the conference.

As offshore energy development expands, researchers argue that federal policymakers must devise ways to settle legal disputes.

Gearhart ends his discussion by pointing to the legal problems involved in such research.

There are also provisions for private citizens to take legal action against the government to make sure the act is enforced.

From academic freedom to technology transfer, legal issues now reach into almost.

As all peacekeeping troops enjoy absolute legal immunity, the host country cannot do anything either.

Williams suggested stronger penalties against both individual athletes and entire teams, along with stiffer legal sanctions.

Design and deliver training to clients to reinforce best practices and legal compliance.

They want to marry to create a firm personal and legal foundation for their current and future children.

Many experts even suggest that the laws of war provide a code of conduct that has perhaps more political than legal importance.

The legal and legislative environments for these cell.

As could be expected, university policies that deny students access to prescribed marijuana can draw legal challenges.

The aim is to avoid long and difficult legal arguments over who was the first to come up with an idea.

The ability to use evidence is true the cornerstone of science, medicine, and our legal system.

It was not a game and did not itself lead to any legal change.

At issue is what music and other materials scholars can use without jumping through legal hoops.

What she actually needs is urgent, specialist legal advice.

Have students compare the legal status, land claims, and sovereignty of indigenous peoples in various countries.

Once a book's copyright has expired, it's free and legal to download.

Some landowners feel this provision violates their legal rights.

Last week's ruling decisively affirms the government's legal ability to fund research on human embryonic stem cells.

Khan has succeeded in stopping the elephant relocation through legal means.

As robots do more on their own, they continue to raise a host of ethical and legal issues.

Such evidence removes the legal distinction between the effects.

Property-who owns it or did what with it-is the subject of many a legal battle.

But the second burning question concerns an entirely legal approach.

Building green can open the door to plenty of legal pitfalls, a new study warns.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the various branches of the legal profession, as civil law, criminal law, and corporate law. A comprehensive legal dictionary adds to its body of standard English entries many words and phrases that have made their way into modern legal practice from law French and Latin and are rarely found in a general English monolingual dictionary. Such a specialized dictionary is useful not only for law students and for attorneys themselves, but for members of the lay public who require legal services. Legal dictionaries published in print follow the normal practice of sorting entry terms alphabetically, while electronic dictionaries, such as the online Dictionary of Law on Dictionary.com, allow direct, immediate access to a search term.

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World English Dictionary

legal (ˈliːɡ^əl)

—*adj*
1.	established by or founded upon law; lawful
2.	of or relating to law
3.	recognized, enforceable, or having a remedy at law rather than in equity
4.	relating to or characteristic of the profession of law

[C16: from Latin lēgālis, from lēx law]

'legally

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

legal

mid-15c. "of or pertaining to the law," from L. legalis "legal, pertaining to the law," from lex (gen. legis) "law," possibly related to legere "to gather," on notion of "a collection of rules" (see lecture). Sense of "permitted by law" is from 1640s. The O.Fr. form was

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leial, loial (see leal, loyal). Related: Legality. Legal tender is from 1740.

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Computing Dictionary

legal definition

Loosely used to mean "in accordance with all the relevant rules", especially in connection with some set of constraints defined by software. "The older =+ alternate for += is no longer legal syntax in ANSI C." "This parser processes each line of legal input the moment it sees the trailing linefeed." Hackers often model their work as a sort of game played with the environment in which the objective is to maneuver through the thicket of "natural laws" to achieve a desired objective. Their use of "legal" is flavoured as much by this game-playing sense as by the more conventional one having to do with courts and lawyers. Compare language lawyer, legalese.
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