L Dictionary
Law-hand
Law-hand, means an outmoded rococo method of handwriting once used by scribes in preparing legal documents. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 892....
legal
legal [Latin legalis, from leg- lex law] 1 : of or relating to law or the processes of law [a question] [take action] 2 a : deriving authority from or founded on law [a tariff rate] [a government] b : fulfilling the requirements of law [a voter] c : having a status derived from law : recognized as such by law [a certainty] d : created by operation of esp. statutory law [ incompetence] [a presumption] compare conventional, judicial e : established by law [the test for mental capacity] 3 : conforming to or permitted by law : lawful [a referendum to make gambling ] 4 : recognized or made effective under principles of law as distinguished from principles of equity : deriving from or existing or valid in law as distinguished from equity see also equity compare equitable 5 a : of, relating to, or having the characteristics of the profession of law or one of its members [a corporate department] [the community] b : of or relating to the study of law [continuing education] le...
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...
Legal
Legal, (1) lawful; according to law; (2) opposed to equitable.Legal, is what is in conformity with is in conformity with the letter or the rule of the law as administered in courts, Hemdutta v. State of Madhya Pradesh, 1969 MPLJ 506....
legal age
legal age : an age at which a person becomes entitled under the law to engage in a particular activity or becomes responsible for particular acts [the legal age for drinking in this state] ;broadly : age of majority compare age of consent, emancipate ...
legal aid
legal aid : aid provided by an organization established to serve the legal needs of the poor ...
legal aid society
legal aid society : an organization providing government-funded legal aid to the poor ...
legal capital
legal capital see capital ...
legal cause
legal cause see cause ...
legal certainty test
legal certainty test : a rule in federal civil procedure: a defendant's challenge to diversity jurisdiction made on the basis that the amount of money involved in the controversy falls short of the jurisdictional amount will be defeated if the plaintiff provides proof that the amount is certain to be met called also legal certainty rule legal certainty standard ...