Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or quality of being legal; lawfulness.
- noun Adherence to or observance of the law.
- noun A requirement of law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gambling game.
- noun The state or character of being legal; lawfulness; conformity to law.
- noun In theology, a reliance on works for salvation; insistence on the mere letter of the law without regard to its spirit: personified in the quotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being legal; conformity to law.
- noun (Theol.) A conformity to, and resting upon, the letter of the law.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Lawfulness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute
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Examples
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But other disk copying programs still exist on the Web, though their legality is at best dubious.
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Such tactics may be permissible under certain interpretations of Canadian criminal and constitutional law, but their legality is disputed by the BCCLA.
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Its legality is questionable, because most of the material that it hosts archives of are presumably copyrighted by their original creators.
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(Which, note to the Al Jazeera interviewer yesterday following the hearing, I took great pains to distinguish — I do not question the legality of the program as such, I question which legal rationale for its legality is the rightone).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare in House Subcommittee Hearing 2010
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GONZALES: Napier says it makes no sense to allow gay marriages to proceed next week, given the uncertainty over their long-term legality, especially since the appeals court could reverse Judge Walker, says Napier.
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It turns out that legality is not the only standard of behavior required in civilized circles.
Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway markgritter 2008
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If the certification by the Department of Justice as to legality is required as a matter of law, and that is not done, and the program goes forward, it's illegal.
Balkinization 2007
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If the certification by the Department of Justice as to legality is required as a matter of law, and that is not done, and the program goes forward, it's illegal.
Balkinization 2007
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If the certification by the Department of Justice as to legality is required as a matter of law, and that is not done, and the program goes forward, it's illegal.
Balkinization 2007
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If the certification by the Department of Justice as to legality is required as a matter of law, and that is not done, and the program goes forward, it's illegal.
Balkinization 2007
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