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legal | American Dictionary

legal
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈli·ɡəl/
connected with or allowed by the law:
the legal profession
the legal right to vote

legally

adverbus/ˈli·ɡə·li/
The contract is legally binding.

legal | Business English

legal
adjective
 LAWuk /ˈliːɡəl/us
connected with the system of law within a country or area:
The department is seeking legal advice on the permitted development rule.
There isn't a formal legal agreement that binds us together as a company.
a legal battle/disputeTwo years of legal battles and delay sent the project's cost spiraling.
legal fees
allowed by law:
The report fails to make a distinction between legal and illegal immigrants.
Regulators are reviewing the purchase to make sure it is legal.

Examples of legal

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We want to program a two-person finite game where the players must perform alternate legal moves, until one of them, the loser, cannot move.
Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.
Often, the legal system (and/or its functionaries) serves as a barrier to any proper resolution of the questions surrounding the narrative and plot structure.
Thus, it is crucial that the legal and technical communities embark on interdisciplinary research to deal with these issues.
They accept that legal systems may exist and that, if they do, their content may be wholly determinate.
This view of marriage has been explored through political, legal, demographic, and more recently symbolic perspectives.
For example, can the ethic of care be easily incorporated into legislation, or might it ultimately be too discretionary to capture within legal rules?
The discussion provides a carefully contextualised examination of the reasons for this particular unlikely legal transformation.
We now present the set of typing rules that define the legal terms of the system, but first we introduce some terminology and notation.
But let us consider instead the common legal example of a person who wants to be alone on his large estate.
The former hinges on the possibility of software agents being regarded as legal persons in the eyes of the law.
The author discusses practical issues such as legal status, education, training, consent, and non-medical prescribing.
To be more precise, all those in which the legal facts are determined by law practices. 21.
Uncertainty, linguistic or otherwise, may lead to legal disputes.
The commerce, legal or otherwise, of private individuals was another matter.
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