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legal residence

legal residence : domicile ...

legal fraud

legal fraud see fraud ...

legal detriment

legal detriment : detriment ...

legal custody

legal custody The right to make important decisions about the raising of your child, on issues such as health care, religious upbringing, education, etc. ...

legal cause

legal cause see cause ...

legal capital

legal capital see capital ...

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...

joint legal custody

joint legal custody The sharing, by both parents, of the right to make important decisions about a child's welfare. ...

legal estate

legal estate see estate ...

legal heir

legal heir see heir ...

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