单词 | legal |
释义 | legalle‧gal /ˈliːɡəl/ ●●● S2 W1 AWL adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINlegal ExamplesOrigin: 1400-1500 French, Latin legalis, from lex ‘law’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorallowed by law► legal Collocations something that is legal is allowed by law: · This trade in foreign currency is perfectly legal.become legal: · Divorce finally became legal in 1992.· Over 3,000 gay couples have married since it became legal for them to do so last year. legal tender (=forms of money that are legally accepted): · In Maastricht, Dutch Guilders, Deutschmarks and Belgian Francs are all considered legal tender. ► lawful formal actions or methods that are lawful are allowed by law, especially as compared with actions or methods that are not legal: · Protesters must only use lawful methods of opposing the government.it is lawful to do something: · It is lawful to employ someone under the age of sixteen if their parents agree.· The FBI will use all reasonable and lawful means to gather intelligence information.· 'Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?' intoned the priest. 'I do,' murmured Carlos. ► legitimate legitimate activities, organizations, or claims are done or work according to, normal laws and rules: · He is a criminal who runs a legitimate business as well.· Tobacco smuggling into the UK is seriously affecting the profits of legitimate importers.· How can I be sure that an on-line business is legitimate?· At least three of the dead woman's relatives have a legitimate claim to her house.· The government has refused to recognise the far-right group as a legitimate political party. ► above board an activity or a way of doing business that is above board is done legally, even if it may seem slightly dishonest: · He assured us that the insurance claim was honest and above board, but I'm not so sure.· I'm sure Peggy wouldn't let anything happen that wasn't perfectly open and above board. ► within the law: act/keep/stay/remain/operate within the law to make sure that what you do is legal: · He makes tough business deals, but he makes sure he always stays within the law.· Security forces must not only act within the law, but must be seen to do so.· Building contractors must operate within the law by ensuring that an acceptable standard of work is carried out. ► legality formal whether something is legal or not: the legality of something: · The European Court will decide on the legality of his claim.· The union immediately challenged the legality of the decision.be of dubious/questionable/uncertain legality (=when it is not clear whether something is legal or not): · The Appeal Court judge said that his conviction was of dubious legality.· This was the first of several actions that were of questionable legality, and which eventually led to his resignation. when the law says you must do something or have the right to do it► legal your legal rights, duties etc are the ones that the law says you have: · Consumers have the legal right to demand their money back if a product is faulty.· the legal duties of a parent· The alcohol content of his blood was three times over the legal limit.· The clerk to the court will reject any document that does not meet the legal requirements.the legal owner (=the owner according to the law): · She now become the legal owner of the land. ► statutory: statutory right/duty/payment etc a right, duty etc that the law says you have: · When you buy something, you have certain statutory rights as a consumer.· Local authorities have a statutory duty to house homeless families.· Officers have a statutory obligation to report any crime committed by a government employee.· The statutory fine for this offence is $250. ► constitutional legal, according to the system of rules of a country: · Nobody seemed to know whether the President's action was constitutional or not.· A court decision in 1954 ruled that segregated education was not constitutional.constitutional rights: · The court will rule on whether the prisoner's constitutional rights were violated. ► according to the law if something is done according to the law , it is done as the law says it should be: · The police must ensure that all interviews and interrogations are carried out according to the law.· Islamic court officials said the men would be tried according to Sharia Muslim law.· According to Singapore law, the immigration officers were within their rights to refuse me admission. ► by law if something must be done by law , it must legally be done: · By law, the purchase must be completed within a month after the contracts are signed.be required/allowed by law: · The wearing of seat belts in cars is required by law.· Donations must not exceed the limits that are allowed by law. · The government is required by law to provide education for all minors. to make something legal► legalize also legalise British to change the law so that something becomes legal: · a campaign to legalise cannabis· Denmark recently legalized marriage between gay couples. ► make something legal · 57% of people wanted abortion to be made legal.· In November, marijuana was made legal for people with a recognized medical condition.make it legal to do something · Texas law makes it legal to carry a concealed weapon. ► decriminalize also decriminalise British to make an illegal activity no longer a crime, so that the people who do it can no longer be punished by law: · Plenty of men and women think prostitution should be decriminalized.· He has openly said that he favours decriminalizing soft drugs. ► legitimize also legitimise British to change the law so that something someone is already doing, especially something morally wrong, is made legal: · He played a brief part in legitimizing black slavery.· Uganda's constitution still legitimized discrimination on the grounds of sex.· The National Salvation Front took power, later trying to legitimize its position with elections. relating to the law► legal connected with laws and courts: legal advice: · People on low salaries can get free legal advice.legal battle/dispute (=when two people or organizations disagree about something, and this is judged in a court of law): · Neither side wanted a long and expensive legal battle.legal fees (=money you have to pay lawyers): · The American government does not pay the legal fees of Americans who are arrested abroad. ► legislative connected with making laws: legislative assembly/council/body: · The Liberal Party has won control of the legislative assembly.legislative power/authority/control: · Legislative authority rests with parliament.· The U.S. president has no legislative power, but he can make recommendations. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► legal limit Phrases He had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream. ► make ... legal a pressure group that is campaigning to make cannabis legal ► legal advice free legal advice ► legal system the Scottish legal system ► the legal profession (=lawyers) COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► legal action· The singer threatened legal action against the magazine. ► take legal action· He is within his rights to take legal action. ► face legal action· The council demanded that we remove the posters, or face legal action. ► bring a legal action· Justice Mayor ruled that she cannot bring a legal action for damages against the plaintiff. ► legal/medical/financial etc advice· Good legal advice can be expensive. ► the legal age· In the US, the legal age for drinking alcohol is 21. ► a legal agreement· The golf club is also offering to enter into a legal agreement with local residents. ► legal aid· If you are on a low income, you may qualify for legal aid. ► legal/medical assistance· It was difficult to get good legal assistance. ► legal authority· US agents have legal authority to bring criminals back from overseas. ► technical/legal/political barriers· Most of the technical barriers have been solved. ► a legal code (=rules decided by law)· the legal code on the use of pesticides ► a legal/mathematical/marketing etc concept· Democracy is a very important political concept. ► financial/legal/economic etc constraints· During the war, there were many physical and social constraints on citizens. ► the legal definition of something· What is the legal definition of manslaughter? ► a political/legal dispute· There was a long legal dispute between the two companies. ► a legal duty· Employers have a legal duty to ensure the safety of their workforce. ► the legal establishment· Prominent members of the legal establishment have opposed the bill. ► legal/medical expenses· We had to get a loan to pay for my husband’s medical expenses.· The tenant can incur considerable legal expenses. ► a medical/legal/financial etc expert (=someone who has special skills related to a particular job or subject)· Medical experts agree that screening can prevent deaths from breast cancer. ► legal expertise· His father, also a lawyer, used his legal expertise to help civil rights groups. ► legal/medical fees· She received £300 compensation after legal fees had been deducted. ► a financial/commercial/legal etc footing The firm started the new year on a stronger financial footing. ► on moral/legal/medical etc grounds The proposal was rejected on environmental grounds. ► legal guardian His aunt is his legal guardian. ► legal/bureaucratic/administrative hassle· It took weeks of bureaucratic hassle to get a replacement passport. ► legal help· You can find free legal help for your problem by logging onto our website. ► a legal immigrant· Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada. ► legal implications· We have taken advice on the legal implications of our activities. ► technical/scientific/legal/medical etc jargon documents full of legal jargon ► legal liability (=responsibility for something that is covered by laws)· What is the legal liability of an employer in the event of an accident at work? ► a legal limit (=a limit set by law)· The alcohol in his blood was four times more than the legal limit. ► legal limitations (=limitations because of law)· Certain legal limitations are placed on the scope of Parliament's power. ► a legal loophole· The new law closed a number of legal loopholes. ► a financial/legal/religious etc matter· This is a legal matter and should be discussed with a solicitor. ► the statutory/legal maximum (=one set by law)· The legal maximum for election contributions was $1,000. ► lawful/legal means· Their protests will continue, but only by legal means. ► a legal minefield· the legal minefield of buying a house overseas ► the legal/statutory minimum (=the least amount the law says you must have)· The wage was often well below the legal minimum. ► a moral/legal/social obligation· We have a moral obligation to take care of our environment. ► a legal/political/technical etc obstacle· Despite technical obstacles, scientists at NASA are considering the project. ► writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad a box of paints and a sketch pad Keep a telephone pad and a pen to hand. ► from a legal point of view· It's a fascinating case, from a legal point of view. ► the legal position (=the situation from a legal point of view)· The legal position is far from clear. ► medical/legal practitioner► a legal precedent (=one that is important in law and so must be followed in legal cases)· There are several legal precedents for this. ► a legal procedure· Adoption was not made a legal procedure until 1926. ► legal proceedings· He wanted to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings. ► the legal profession· He followed his father into the legal profession. ► a teaching/medical/legal etc qualification British English:· She has a degree and a teaching qualification. ► legal/political/economic etc ramifications the environmental ramifications of the road-building program ► for legal/political/medical etc reasons· The boy cannot be named for legal reasons. ► scientific/logical/legal reasoning► a legal/statutory requirement· There is no legal requirement to carry identity papers. ► a legal right· Banks have the legal right to recover their money. ► medical/legal secretary► the political/legal/educational etc system· The country is rightly proud of its legal system. ► a legal/medical term· The site provides a glossary of legal terms. ► legal work (=work done by lawyers)· He will handle all the legal work. ► legal wrangle He was involved in a long legal wrangle with his employers. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► action· There was some question of possible legal action in the past, but this has been resolved.· Kip and I were lucky the legal actions that could have been taken against us were not.· Section 47 imposes a positive duty on investigating authorities to see the child and to take legal action if access is denied.· Entrepreneurs learn to avoid legal actions that can take their time as well as their money.· If they refuse to go, Jansen faces legal action.· Cheltzie Hentz is taking legal action against two fellow primary school pupils after they swore at her on a bus.· Apparently now even the mildest criticism is to be followed by the threat of legal action.· Her role is simply to assist union members in taking certain specified types of legal action against their trade union. ► advice· Parents or others with child care problems may also need legal advice.· The two older children had no legal advice.· Male speaker On legal advice i resigned.· In either case it is advisable to seek professional legal advice.· The legal advice is part of a smokescreen being put up to hide its intentions and its concern.· In certain areas law centres, staffed by professional lawyers and advisers, offer a good free legal advice service.· This broadly relates to communications between lawyer and client either in relation to the giving of legal advice or in contemplation of legal proceedings.· But said he would be seeking legal advice over the original ban. ► aid· Application must be made to the legal aid area office for authority to exceed this limit.· Absence of legal aid A libel action is the only important civil right for which legal aid is not available.· He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that.· Therefore, we consider first the operation of the legal aid scheme.· His vision included slum brigades, lodging houses, eating houses, legal aid and the first labour exchange.· But life is not just hard for legal aid lawyers. ► assistance· The value of good legal assistance can not be overstressed.· And Dees was offering us free legal assistance.· This might be legal assistance to recover unpaid fees or help with the negotiations after a cancelled engagement.· The causes she has espoused include lowering infant mortality and the provision of legal assistance to the poor.· As you appear to be without legal assistance the following instructions must be carried out forthwith: - 1. ► authority· The legal authority of the Lander has been reduced to legal administrative authority by the federal administration.· With censorship dead for more than twelve years, it had no legal authority to review any private publications.· Critics point out the nit-picking thoroughness which legal authorities in the Republic so often bring to bear on extradition requests.· In 1917 the Illinois State Supreme Court became the first legal authority to advise state courts to bar cameras during trials.· Slowly they became the legal authorities on the religious law, adding comments and interpretations of their own.· The outgoing council did not have legal authority to give final approval to an ordinance. ► battle· They explain that the patient is engaged in a legal battle with his brother over some land.· The agreement effectively ends a bitter legal battle in two states between Mrs Harriman and the heirs.· The operation marked the end of a lengthy legal battle.· However, after a prolonged legal battle, Fleiss said she is ready to end her standoff with state authorities.· It was not just the adults who were scarred by this vicious legal battle.· City officials denied any retaliation but said they approved the settlement because they feared higher costs from a protracted legal battle.· Keith Atkinson's case against a health authority was dismissed after a six year legal battle.· They are also waging a legal battle to try to re-establish traditional communal rights on the mountainside. ► challenge· It believes this would prevent legal challenges to its status while retaining its flexibility to interpret the code according to changing circumstances.· This is the reason the Democrats lost virtually every legal challenge.· They believe a successful legal challenge could re-open the prospect of successful buyouts.· A legal challenge was launched by the Defenders of Wildlife group and other bodies, and upheld by the federal appeals court.· Her legal challenge has been taken over by another prospective Citadel cadet, Nancy Mellette.· It can do all these things without the possibility of legal challenge in our courts.· Broder, from Eller Media, said a legal challenge is likely if the law is put on the books. ► costs· Usually, the successful party is awarded legal costs against the loser.· The firm then reimbursed the fund for the $ 200, 000 it had received from the fund for legal costs.· The Halifax, Coventry and Portman will pay basic legal costs and give a free valuation.· Taft said Simpson has been liquidating assets to pay bills including taxes, legal costs, and business and household expenses.· At present you can not be asked to pay the Defendant's legal costs, even if you decide to abandon your claim.· This is less odd than it looks: it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11.· The legal costs for the two sides had reached £310,000.· The legal costs will be paid from your Estate so there will be less to divide between relatives and other beneficiaries. ► department· And that is why the legal department of the Daily Mirror will have to buy a new copy of Archbold.· If you do not send a payment as soon as possible, we must forward your account to our legal department.· By having an in-house legal department, there is better control of legal costs which makes for a more profitable business.· He works as a lawyer in the county council's legal department.· Many local authorities prefer litigation, possibly owing to the choice and influence of their own legal departments.· In the spring of 1945, he decided to create a legal department and start suing bigots. ► dispute· A succession of other legal disputes went unresolved, and appeals were made to the parlement of Paris.· First on the witness stand was Neill Freeman, a forensic accountant who traces assets in legal disputes.· In recent years there has been a steady growth in the use of tribunals to deal with legal disputes rather than courts.· The charges against Studer are part of the legal dispute over the share plan, which shareholders narrowly backed in November 1994.· He was a passionate, combative, choleric, and difficult man, frequently embroiled in legal disputes.· If the information is preserved, it will be in an effort to guarantee its availability in case of legal dispute.· A dispute over what they do mean is, in principle, like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute.· He's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children. ► document· A will is a legal document, and it has to be written down in the correct legal language.· He refuses to marry her, in spite of the fact that he gave her a legal document stating his intention.· His main expense is photocopying thousands of legal documents and he spends his days preparing the next part of his case.· A trust receipt is a legal document that creates a lien on some specific item of inventory.· Ensure accuracy and legibility of clinical and legal documents.· When Woolman displayed a gift for the field of law, his employer put him to work executing legal documents.· The policy itself being a legal document will define the precise terms of the cover.· Ephraim even agreed to witness the legal document drawn up between his nephew and niece that effected the change. ► duty· Appointed, in theory, by shareholders, they have a legal duty to report managers' wrongdoings.· To be more free of legal duties, he concentrated on his skills as a tailor.· As Chapter 3 will discuss, the legal duties imposed on management are directed towards shareholder benefit.· The school board has the same legal duty to bargain in good faith as the union does.· A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right.· Carmen claimed he and his group owed no legal duty to Roy Peck-that was their defense, in part.· Citizens thus had a legal duty to reveal felonies known to them.· Directors of Torras have a legal duty to pursue the missing funds, they add. ► expenses· Medical and legal expenses, public liability and cancellation should all be included at as high a level as possible.· Clinton has refused to sign GOP-backed legislation to reimburse the fired travel office personnel for their legal expenses.· One must have regard to the potential for legal expenses when determining the ultimate extrajudicial settlement figure in any case.· Mrs. Healey, comprehensively insured, would have had her legal expenses met by her insurance company.· The new lender will charge its legal expenses to you.· That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.· In addition, the legal expenses incurred in the dispute between the partners were incurred to protect and preserve the partnership's assets.· The settlement even commits the firms to paying the government's legal expenses. ► experts· Surely there should be legal experts to advise them?· Politics invariably plays a role in any decision to use the emergency powers, legal experts say.· However, a number of independent legal experts regarded the deals as unfair and exceptional.· Besides tougher legal standards, there are several procedural reasons to go slow under the new law, legal experts say.· The standing committee's choice of legal experts to draw up the constitution, adopted unanimously by the assembly, was surprising.· But several former federal prosecutors and legal experts disagreed, saying that hundreds of prosecutions could be affected.· Some legal experts say an inquest is an out of date and inappropriate way of investigating the deaths.· Such an appeal could delay the execution for years, legal experts agree. ► fee· The paper was rocky, as circulation, distribution, legal fees, arguments were building up.· His legal fees are being paid through his campaign contributions.· The rebellion was over at a cost he claimed to be more than £4,000 in fines and legal fees.· It also indicates the district spends almost $ 25, 000 on legal fees.· The women, who were on legal aid, were offered an out-of-court settlement which would have barely covered their legal fees.· After almost $ 20, 000 in legal fees, though, Frederick Brewing won approval with its catchy label intact.· It takes too many years and too many thousands of dollars in legal fees. ► framework· No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.· Individuals from different cultures may not only contract together using different cultural assumptions, but using an entirely different legal framework.· The republics would need to create the legal framework and conditions for market economies.· What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?· Some relate to the present legal framework.· The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues.· Power contests were often set in a legal framework.· Under the legal framework employers would also be prevented from winning interim injunctions to stop disruption backed by lawful ballots. ► immigrant· When it comes to legal immigrants, Californians are liberal enough.· At least 270, 000 legal immigrants would lose food stamps.· C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.· George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.· The bill would also have denied numerous benefits and services to legal immigrants.· Kennedy is one of the combatants in the Congressional struggle to reform federal law covering both illegal and legal immigrants.· I., said it is unfair to make legal immigrants wait. ► immigration· Critics charge the bills would cut legal immigration by 20 to 40 percent by placing new limits on all categories of entrants.· Alan Simpson of Wyoming attempted to expand the bill to cover legal immigration.· A second measure to limit legal immigration was tabled, 76-24.· Senators were unable to work up any outrage about the release this week of new estimates of the size of legal immigration.· The Senate will take up legal immigration later.· Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, failed in their effort to rewrite the rules for legal immigration. ► issue· This practice raised several serious ethical and legal issues.· Paula Corbin Jones are as lurid and titillating as the legal issues at stake are important and complex.· The working group will look at ways of organising the poll and will also examine the legal issues.· The defiance of the coroner at last brought the legal issue into the open in a way which had hitherto been avoided.· In all cases, there could be great involvement in a whole range of legal issues.· An interesting legal issue still remains to be addressed by the Court.· This chapter focuses in particular on the legal issues raised by this important investigation.· Still others have found themselves trapped in a horrendous and expensive quagmire of political, emotional, financial and legal issues. ► limit· Ferguson, who was more than twice over the legal limit, pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay £25 prosecution costs.· In any case, the current legal limits for caffeine are sufficiently high to allow a wide latitude of experimentation.· There was no apparent reason to administer the drug, although the quantities involved were not above the legal limits.· An autopsy revealed alcohol in his blood above the legal limit in Oregon.· The legal limit is 35 micrograms.· Fines for speeding range from $ 57. 60 to $ 360, depending on how much drivers exceed the legal limits.· Company officials insist that emissions from the combustion of the tyres will not remain within legal limits.· The legal limit in Washington is. 10. ► loophole· Foods to boost your physique, your intelligence or your psyche are already taking advantage of this legal loophole.· This legal loophole has proven lucrative for the farm giants. ► matter· Western defenders of the deal claimed that the frontier question was not a legal matter but simple recognition of an existing reality.· He said this was a legal matter.· There was also very little demand for help on legal matters and employment issues.· He became a priest in 1284, aiding his parishioner5 in both spiritual and legal matters.· Syagrius likewise collaborated with the Burgundians in legal matters before 469.· He did research on legal matters for Carmine and knew a great deal about his holdings and operations. ► obligation· To what extent they are under a legal obligation to do so will be the subject of the following section.· Having determined its legal obligations based on the facts of this specific disease, the company actively sought employee cooperation.· Whether there is a legal obligation is unclear at present.· Statute takes precedence over contract and other legal obligations.· Local authorities need comprehensive and coherent policies to meet both these demands and their minimum legal obligations.· An objection to this argument is that a legal obligation is not a necessary condition for a liability.· On the other hand, the parties may argue that some third party is under a legal obligation to them.· Congress recently acted to deny trade preferences to countries that fail to meet their legal obligations to end such abusive child labor. ► position· Suppose, for sake of argument, that this is indeed the definitive legal position.· Instead, it attempts to give a brief resume of the current legal position.· The Department of the Environment said it was looking at the legal position of local authorities wanting to control parties.· The other was the ability of Louis-Napoleon to make use of his legal position and his popularity with the masses.· That is exactly the legal position.· These two paragraphs provide a fairly bald summary of the legal position.· Thus a buyer's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one.· Uncertainties about her financial circumstances and legal position. 4. ► practice· No doubt many fewer laymen are aware of the parallel legal practice of precedent.· I am now looking forward to applying this experience in the context of a legal practice.· Strict conventionalism fails as an interpretation of our legal practice even when especially when - we emphasize its negative part.· Bill padding has become so endemic to legal practice that it is generally regarded as a joke.· That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time.· What happened next is significant to people who are familiar with law enforcement and legal practice in Dallas.· Conveyancing is an area of legal practice where there is traditionally some degree of co-operation between practitioners. ► problem· It seems to be clear that not enough use is made of solicitors for the solution of legal problems.· What if you were a politician with serious personal, political and legal problems.· In addition, there are potential legal problems.· In response, the Justice Department stated that these legal problems were all matters under state jurisdiction.· However, don't get carried away to the extent of seeing this as a purely legal problem.· Such workplace discrimination is a major legal problem.· A number of legal problems still have to be sorted out.· Mesa thought his legal problems were over until the Ohio Supreme Court overruled Curran in 1999. ► procedure· There are several reasons for the dislike of the legal procedures.· One day, the mystery of legal procedures and jargon disappeared.· What is required is a speedy and effective legal procedure which secures corrections and counter-statements by way of an alternative procedure to libel litigation.· The legal procedure is far too clumsy and hit-and-miss.· Nevertheless, even the staunchest advocates of non-legal solutions to truancy seem to accept that legal procedures must continue to be available.· In legal procedures personal and family relations have been deemed to be beyond law's limits.· Judges are normally appointed as chairmen of those numerous committees which are concerned with reform of substantive law or legal procedure.· Invocation of legal procedures, in particular court action, seems to have declined in recent years. ► proceeding· Anonymous accounts could still be held if they related to legal proceedings such as divorce or inheritance.· General Ulysses S.. Grant suggested that legal proceedings be brought against the city for damages suffered by the blacks.· The threat of legal proceedings is not improper pressure.· Mr Benquis faces strong political pressure to successfully wrap up both the investigation and any subsequent legal proceedings.· How long that takes is entirely a matter for the legal proceedings in Ireland.It's dependent on them.· Lloyds Bank say they won't comment because the matter is subject to legal proceedings.· More evidence of environmental damage is expected to emerge in legal proceedings against Exxon, scheduled for April.· The decision was subject to ratification by the Senate before any legal proceedings could begin. ► process· The legal process of buying then begins.· The legal process on the federal level is guaranteed to take time.· The legal process of transferring ownership of the property from the seller to you begins - this is called conveyancing.· We learned law by mastering a framework for further understanding of the legal process.· Mediation on all issues complements the legal process, without replacing it.· The whole point of the legal process is to get a decisive determination which will end the dispute in question.· The legal process takes a long time and the task of getting new Regulations approved remained incomplete when I retired.· The legal process is long winded; it can outlast the life of the patent. ► profession· There must, effectively, be a change of culture in the legal profession.· The first Congress of the United States was dominated by the legal profession.· The legal profession served as a means of upward social mobility for Burghers, Sinhalese and Tamils.· For a sixty-year-old man in the upper reaches of the legal profession, that was pathetic.· He is, after all, a government minister, as well as the leader of the legal profession.· He had a powerful mind and he rose to the top rank of the legal profession.· This Commission consists of five senior members of the judiciary and legal profession.· This is a question that perplexes many outside the legal profession who do not fully appreciate or understand our constitutional rights. ► protection· Whether badgers merit greater legal protection is a much-debated question among producers in the south-west where damage to farms is known.· Patent applications must meet a higher legal standard to be granted and offer a different legal protection than do copyrights.· You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will occur.· It was suggested by proponents that such legal protection was no longer necessary and was an insult to the South.· They had special status and legal protection and there were prescribed penalties for those attacking or injuring them.· It develops gradually, acquiring greater legal protection by stages as the fetus gains viability.· National Rivers Authority was also worried because once the section is designated its legal protection would make flood maintenance work difficult.· Relevant spheres for scrutiny include health, education, employment, training, legal protection, trade unions, and others. ► reason· The girl, who can not be named for legal reasons, had been left alone when a friend went home.· This is for legal reasons, to prevent a suit.· The child, who can not be named for legal reasons, was staying with her grandparents in south Devon.· Loretta guessed there were legal reasons for the terse nature of the item.· The girl, who can not be named for legal reasons, was then led out the back door of the court.· The names can not be published for legal reasons.· The woman, who can not be named for legal reasons, wants the circumstances of her children's care proceedings examined. ► requirement· We must ensure that we are operating in full compliance with the legal requirements of our software licenses.· Strike fits requirements White House officials said the potential pilots strike appeared to meet the legal requirement for presidential intervention.· She wasn't immunised That's a legal requirement!· The clerk is bound by a legal requirement.· There is no legal requirement for a child's evidence to be corroborated in civil proceedings.· The notes do not set out the full legal requirements.· It is vital to comply with legal requirements before embalming.· The chapter concludes by discussing policy in social work agencies in the light of research findings, legal requirements and developing opinion. ► responsibility· The child, however, is a minor, the legal responsibility of his/her parents or guardians.· Each participating State will provide controls to ensure that such authorities fulfil their constitutional and legal responsibilities.· We can not however guarantee it and we can not accept legal responsibility for it.· What legal responsibilities does the school board have in the bargaining process?· Sons carried this legal responsibility throughout their lives; daughters relinquished it when they married.· His legal responsibilities for issues such as extradition have also brought him into contact with senior legal and political figures in Ireland.· The exodus comes as governors acquire legal responsibilities for the running of schools as a result of the Government's education reforms.· It has not accepted legal responsibility for the deaths. ► right· He has the legal right to seize enough of the defendant's goods to satisfy the judgment.· A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right.· Animals are not human, therefore it seems inappropriate for them to have legal rights.· Parental consent to in vitro fertilisation does not deprive the child of his legal right of action.· Innkeepers have a legal right to payment in advance.· These can only give extra benefits to those legal rights just discussed and are not permitted to affect them.· A will also be justified in reaching an accommodation with B rather than exercising his strict legal rights under the contract.· Those who did not sign would forfeit some legal rights. ► rule· Equally, any proposed remedies must be addressed more to administrative and procedural practice than to changing formal legal rules.· His decision to aid the individual is determined by a set of social or legal rules.· Everywhere else it is used in the sense of legal rules embodied in one document.· Do you therefore automatically break this legal rule?· Although this picture no longer accurately reflects the reality of many modern corporate structures, legal rules still rest upon the old idea.· Nevertheless, the topic is undeniably an important one and it is worth sketching in the legal rules.· The law and legal rules incorporate and build upon perceptions of reality.· The legal rules are unsettled, and will cause some confusion with the advent of satellite television. ► service· In response the Society rejected the need to compel local authorities to put out aspects of their legal services to competitive tender.· It brings free medical and legal services, often vitally needed in poor communities.· We are committed to enabling people with limited means to have access to legal services.· Secondly, the inclusive approach may act as a positive encouragement to clients to make use of legal services.· The Government considers that this unnecessarily hinders the ways in which the provision of legal services might develop.· Such services may include, for example, the giving of investment advice or the provision of legal services.· For the rich the cost of legal services is not a barrier to the use of lawyers.· This has left a section of the community without effective access to legal services for expensive litigation. ► status· The constitutional and legal status of many such rules is a matter of controversy.· Beal maintains victims should be an important part of the process, but says they have no special legal status.· Neither their legal status nor their chances in education, training and employment are full or free.· The change in legal status meant that the couple were deprived of that right.· If his legal status is to be changed, he must rely on the generosity of the citizens.· This identity is partly a legal status, partly a feeling.· The legal status of organisations such as these is analogous to that of a club.· Marshall traced the development of a legal status of citizenship in the United Kingdom through a number of historical stages. ► system· All legal systems have to deal with the situation which arises where a debtor is unable to pay his debts.· Krueger had to turn to the legal system for some form of painkiller.· And revisions to the legal system to deal with the increase in cases means they will be able to prosecute more people.· This precedent, if strictly honored in 1984, would throw the legal system into chaos.· On display in recent months have been the best and the worst of the United States' legal system.· Most communications are later backed up by directives, which require member states to ensure that their legal systems comply.· They have had to go up against the legal system, the police and the government.· The legal systems that govern the buying and selling of property differ widely around the world. ► work· The truth is that most legal work does not involve courts.· Shortly thereafter, Rapoport hired Hubbell and paid him $ 18, 000 for legal work.· Variety - you would be able to handle a wide range of legal work in commerce and industry.· Mark Waite of Sugarlands, Texas, does commercial litigation, which is the most grueling and unpredictable legal work.· The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience.· As an associate, he said was not involved in entering into specific agreements with clients for legal work.· Without this we can not engage in any worthwhile legal work or provide access to items.· My father called us frequently from Tokyo to keep us abreast of the legal work, which sounded complicated to me. PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► legal action/proceedings Word family
WORD FAMILYnounlegality ≠ illegalitylegalizationlegaleseillegaladjectivelegal ≠ illegallegalisticverblegalizeadverblegally ≠ illegally 1if something is legal, you are allowed to do it or have to do it by law OPP illegal: What the company has done is perfectly legal. plans to make the carrying of identity cards a legal requirement He had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream. a pressure group that is campaigning to make cannabis legal2[only before noun] concerned with or relating to the law: free legal advice a costly legal dispute the Scottish legal systemthe legal profession (=lawyers)3legal action/proceedings the use of the legal system to settle an argument, put right an unfair situation etc: She threatened to take legal action against the hospital. |
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