legal opinion

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legal opinion - the legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge"judgement, opinion, judgmentlegal document, legal instrument, official document, instrument - (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some rightconcurring opinion - an opinion that agrees with the court's disposition of the case but is written to express a particular judge's reasoningdissenting opinion - an opinion that disagrees with the court's disposition of the casemajority opinion - the opinion joined by a majority of the court (generally known simply as `the opinion')fatwah - (Islam) a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar; "bin Laden issued three fatwahs calling upon Muslims to take up arms against the United States"dictum, obiter dictum - an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not bindinglaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"