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1581 T. Rogers tr. N. Hemmingsen Faith of Church Militant iv. iii. 278 No mortall man, since the fal of our first parentes, can legalie be iustified before the tribunal seat of God.

1592 R. Hill tr. W. Perkins Golden Chaine (ed. 2) li. 358 It is easie to performe the law legally, but not Evangelically.

1622 T. Scott Belgicke Pismire 1 That man might..performe actions..legally according to a rule.

1634 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Instit. Christian Relig. (new ed.) iii. xxii. 460 Hee..bindeth not himselfe with a certaine law to call all men legallie.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 106 The King was as Legally possess'd of that Right, as of any thing else he had.

1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous iii. 117 Putting a Criminal legally to Death, is not thought sinful.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. xii. 205 I never was legally married to any woman.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) VI. 24 His trustees would be legally seised according to the uses of his will.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches v. 190 The laws of Holland had..prohibited the aborigines from being legally sold.

1956 S. Bedford Legacy (1984) II. iii. 58 Nothing could legally be done without the father's consent.

1987 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 49 186/1 Couples living together were asked whether they were legally married or ‘living together as married’.

2012 N.Y. Times Mag. 18 Nov. 17 I gave her as much [information] as I legally could, which is not very much.

1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 14 The least sin, legally considered, is damnable; though evangelically, the greatest of all is pardonable.

a1758 J. Edwards Hist. Redempt. (1774) i. v. 104 He was both legally and naturally descended from David.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) II. 213 They determined to pursue the matter legally before the judges.

1876 Macmillan's Mag. May 99/1 The Commune is legally and actually the absolute proprietor of the Communal land.

1958 F. W. Neal Titoism in Action vi. 127 Their decisions were not legally binding on the individual worker-management bodies.

1987 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 290/2 There are actually two chemically distinct materials that the world legally accepts as jade... Both are technically rocks, since they are mineral aggregates.

2003 Prospect Sept. 33/1 The Iraq war was and remains legally and morally unjustifiable.

1902 Monmouth (Illinois) Republican Atlas 12 Dec. A German dancing master..was described in the charge-sheet as blind... He protested,..as there was nothing wrong with his eye-sight. He was, however, informed that no alteration could be made. In consequence the man will remain legally blind as long as he lives.]

1915 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 6 580 The judges probably first decided that a man was not legally blind unless he was unable to distinguish between light and darkness.

1954 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 17/8 A person is considered legally blind in this country if he cannot read at twenty feet what a person with normal vision can read at 200 feet, or if the field of his vision is no greater than twenty degrees.

2007 J. Cutter Independent Movement & Trav. Blind Children p. xxi In many programs and agencies servicing the blind and visually impaired, the visually impaired child is not ‘legally blind’. This child usually possesses an amount of vision that does not qualify as legal blindness.