Phrase Hound found 140 phrases and 44 compound words that contain legal. The most common are listed below. Open legal in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 140
- legal adviceThe giving of a formal opinion regarding the substance or procedure of the law, usually received from a solicitor, barrister or lawyer, ordinarily for a fee.
- legal actionLegal proceedings; a lawsuit.
- legal systemThe process by which a governing body enforces the law and legal procedures.
- legal aidFree or low-cost service in the field of law, for the indigent.
- legal personAn aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.
- legal servicesplural of legal service: An aid provided by a lawyer, or any other person licensed to practice law, to a client.
- legal representativeA lawyer, solicitor, etc, who acts on behalf of a client in legal matters.
- legal tenderAny form of currency that, by law, cannot be refused as payment to extinguish a debt equal to the amount offered.
- Legal issues
- Legal counsel
- Legal rights
- legal noticeIn some common law jurisdictions, a form of delegated legislation enacted under a power derived from an enactment.
- legal entityAn organization such as a company or trust fund that the law treats as if it were a person, capable of entering into contracts and of being sued.
- Legal Process
- Legal information
- Legal status
- Legal fees
- Legal document
- Legal documents
- Legal right
- Legal framework
- legal ageSynonym of age of majority: The age at which the rights and privileges of an adult are legally granted or recognized; i.e.; the age where a person ceases to be a minor legally and becomes a legal adult.
- legal studiesThe study of law, especially as a subject taken during high school.
- legal nameThe name of a natural person recognized on official records, especially as recorded on a birth certificate or as changed by a legal process.
- street-legalThat can legally be operated on public streets.
Compound words 44
- legallyAs permitted by law; not contrary to law.
- legalizeTo make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
- legalismThe focusing on the text of written law to the exclusion of the intent of law, elevating strict adherence to law over justice, mercy, grace and common sense.
- legaliseNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of legalize.
- laggerOne who or that which lags behind; a laggard.
- legalistOf or related to legalism, in its various senses.
- medicolegalOf, or pertaining to, both medicine and law, as for example with the legal implications of a medical decision (such as when to stop attempting resuscitation, or when not to prescribe a certain medication or surgery.
- legaltechLegal technology, the use of technology (such as automation software and algorithms) to help in legal services.
- nonlegalNot law-related; not related to the practice of law.
- legalitarianIn favour of legislation as a means of bringing about equality.