Definition of legal

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Legal (a.) 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..

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Obligate :: Obligate (v. t.) To bring or place under obligation, moral or legal; to hold by a constraining motive..
Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner..
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na..
Decision :: Decision (n.) An account or report of a conclusion, especially of a legal adjudication or judicial determination of a question or cause; as, a decision of arbitrators; a decision of the Supreme Court..
Resolve :: Resolve (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution..
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law..
Lawless :: Lawless (a.) Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor..
Bigamy :: Bigamy (n.) The offense of marrying one person when already legally married to another.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..
Disqualify :: Disqualify (v. t.) To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness..
Sue :: Sue (v. t.) To proceed with, as an action, and follow it up to its proper termination; to gain by legal process..
Band :: Band (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress..
Proceeding :: Proceeding (n.) The act of one who proceeds, or who prosecutes a design or transaction; progress or movement from one thing to another; a measure or step taken in a course of business; a transaction; as, an illegal proceeding; a cautious or a violent proceeding..
Undersign :: Undersign (v. t.) To write one's name at the foot or end of, as a letter or any legal instrument..
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To engage in; to become occupied with; as, to enter the legal profession, the book trade, etc..
Possess :: Possess (v. t.) To have the legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book..
Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot..
Caption :: Caption (n.) That part of a legal instrument, as a commission, indictment, etc., which shows where, when, and by what authority, it was taken, found, or executed..
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