act of law
: a change of a person's legal rights, obligations, or liabilities (as in the acquisition of a right or exemption from a liability) arising from the legal effect of some event such as bankruptcy
Word History
First Known Use
1818, in the meaning defined above
- leading article
- leading brand
- leading edge
- leading edges
- leading indicator
- leading ladies
- leading lady
- leading light
- leading load
- leading man
- leading mark
- leading men
- leading motive
- leading off
- leading on
- leading one down the garden path
- leading question
- leading rein
- leading seventh
- leading stone
- leading strings
- leading to
- leading tone
- leading truck
- leading up