legal memory

noun Law.

a period of time, now usually established by statute, during which custom, conduct, or a state of affairs must have existed or continued in order for it to have taken on the force of law or to establish a legal right or title not otherwise provable.

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Origin:
1760–70

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deprived of certain rights as a citizen, as a consequence of conviction of certain offenses

willful disobedience to or open disrespect for the rules or orders of a court

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"Tsars and slaves, the intelligent and the obtuse, publicans and pharisees all have an identical legal and moral right to honor the memory of the deceased as they see fit, without regard for anyone else's opinion and without the fear of hindering one another."

-Anton Pavlovich Chekhov