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legal

If an activity is legal it does not break any laws. In Canada, it is perfectly legal for a woman to walk down the street with no shirt on. A legal problem, action, fee, etc. is related to the law or lawyers. After losing the court case, he had to pay over $30,000 in legal fees. The government brought legal action against three cigarette makers.

legal

established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules of or relating to jurisprudence legal loophole (= sound) having legal efficacy or force a sound title to the property relating to or characteristic of the profession of law the legal profession allowed by official rules a legal pass receiver

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Simple sentences

In legal documents, difficult words and phrases are often used.
What Tom is doing isn't legal.
The lawyer recommended his client to take legal action.
I went to the lawyer for legal help.
It's legal for citizens to carry guns in many states.
The U.S. would be nothing without its immigrants, legal and illegal.
Slavery was legal in the new Republic of Texas.
Tom is the legal owner of this piece of land.
Until 1986, in the schools of England, it was legal to punish children with belts, sticks, and clubs.
In this legal system, corporal punishment is imposed on adult men only.
Tom used a legal loophole.
It's not legal to keep wild animals as pets.
It is better for you to act by legal means.
She decided to take legal advice.
The legal system in America is the world's finest.
Is this legal?
It's perfectly legal.
Prostitution is legal in Germany.
Is it legal?
This is legal.
This isn't legal.

Movie subtitles

All you need is a legal guardian, and I'm it.
That cannot be her legal name.
I'm going against all legal advice.
It's legal.
Yeah, a lot of things are legal.
Yoga pants on a date are legal.
Men can post photos of their nipples but women can't, even though it's legal for women to be topless.
That is my professional, legal advice.
You are both right - because you both did wrong, and therefore must share the legal costs.
I told you I got a message to come here and bring legal proof of my half ownership 'The Sally Ann Mine'.
Just a present, he has legal possession of the half interest of the mine that rightfully belongs to me.
If we make a legal case of it, we'll be tied up for months?
Ladies, as your legal adviser, I would suggest that we resort to a.
As the Leader of the German legal service. I can say that, clearly, the basis of the National Socialist State. is the Nationalist Socialist Law Code.
The law demands that I carry a certain legal reserve, and I do.
Wait a minute, this isn't legal.
Marshal will be aboard tomorrow or next day. If we make a legal case of it, we'll be tied up for months?
That may be, but your statement contains a legal error.
There, now everything's legal. - Thank you.
If you don't mind, I'll omit the legal phraseology, get down to the bequests.
I'm improving my legal knowledge.
Just you put your name down there, and then the deal is legal.
Don't talk till you get legal advice.
There isn't a jury in England that will believe you, and, if I had the most brilliant legal mind in the world, I couldn't make them.
I'll give them the chance they didn't give me. They'll get a legal trial in a legal courtroom.
They'll have a legal judge and a legal defense.
Not until we get some kind of legal representation.
We are the legal council for Club M.
It wasn't easy to catch him. I'll go and consult with the Royal Family's group of legal experts.
As the Leader of the German legal service.
Every legal paper we had smelled of sachet.
The staff member who first undertakes the application of new methods in surgery deliberately exposes his hospital to legal and himself to criminal prosecution.
Why, when you can do it nice and legal?
I do everything legal. -Oh, yeah.
I represent the possible donor, Mrs. Carleton Random. whose legal advisor I happen to be.
Ma'am, I'd sooner hang that crowd out there to the nearest tree. than let 'em have this ranch, but that paper your husband signed. gives 'em a legal right to it. Don't it, Wash?
Ladies, you can't do this! It ain't legal! L.
You didn't get legal advice?
All right, then let's deal with legal facts.

News and current affairs

Simply restricting the practice of land clearing probably would not work, since farm families and communities would face a strong temptation to evade legal limits.
Indeed, it seems as if everyone in the Kremlin is reading Carl Schmitt, the Nazi legal theorist who taught that naming your enemy is the central mission of politics.
This party will be centralized under personal leadership and will reduce the state to a legal fiction.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
If this constitution were accepted in anything like the proposed form, the EU would gain many attributes and trappings of statehood: its own president and foreign minister, its own legal system.
Political and legal reforms in Turkey in recent years have been remarkably far-reaching, for they have clearly been spurred by Turks' wish to move closer to the EU.
The legal system, schools, and the media could bring change, but no official entity takes the problem seriously enough to initiate effective action.
The reasons invoked by Correa (legal concerns about how the bonds were issued in the 2000 debt exchange) were beside the point.
They remained in jail in Riyadh without legal representation until the final verdict.
Instead, the US should establish humane, secure, and legal mechanisms of temporary or permanent entry for people the American economy needs and wants, and it should work with, not against, governments in Latin America.
A third factor that should also be taken into account is what damage would be done to the emerging international legal system for ending the impunity long enjoyed by state officials who use their power to commit atrocities.
Mousavi must carefully continue his legal campaign, without compromising the trust he has gained from the majority of Iranians.
The world cannot do without rules; it cannot move forward against our age's most pressing problems without defined legal rules and the institutions that regulate international law.
The US, Canada, Europe, and Latin America have constructed a regional legal framework, which must not be abandoned, to defend democratic rule and human rights in the hemisphere.
But the time has come to abandon the Jubilee movement's humanitarian approach and focus instead on the legal aspect.
Obviously, the legacy of colonialism - widespread hunger, illiteracy, lack of property or legal recourse, and vulnerability to state violence - is a major factor in their current poverty.
In Libya, we are deploying a new UN support mission to assist the country's transitional authorities in establishing a new government and legal order, consistent with the aspirations of the Libyan people.
And the opaque Ecuadorian methods are not possible in Europe, both for legal reasons and because a transaction of this size could hardly be disguised or outsourced.
Before independence, Nigeria's legal tender was the British pound.
As always in Europe, there are legal and political obstacles to change.
But there are serious concerns about legal operations, too.
Many countries with histories of colonialism and other forms of tyranny, as well as countries without abundant natural resources, have chosen to educate women and grant them legal rights.
Seeking a way out of this difficult situation, the Supreme Leader declared that the electoral disputes must be settled in through legal channels, not on the street.

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