Definition of Legal

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Definition of Legal

Legal

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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Legal Quotations

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Ayn Rand

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
P. J. O'Rourke

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
Andrew Jackson

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Henry Miller

The Supreme Court ruled that disabled golfer Casey Martin has a legal right to ride in a golf cart between shots at PGA Tour events. Man, the next thing you know, they're going to have some guy carry his clubs around for him.
Jon Stewart

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.
Rahm Emanuel

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce

Legal Translations

legal in Dutch is gewettigd, wettelijk, wettig, legaal
legal in Latin is canonicus, forensis
legal in Norwegian is lovlig
legal in Spanish is juridico, legal, judicial
legal in Swedish is laglig, giltiga

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