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Another word for legality

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legality

n.

legitimacy, lawfulness, authority, permissibility, validity, justice, defendability, status de jure, status before the law, status in court; see also right 1, 2.

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Another word for legality

noun

The state or quality of being within the law:

lawfulness, legitimacy, legitimateness, licitness. See law

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For the question of its legality see Vestments.
A new foundation had to be laid on which a new system of legality might be reared.
This court has the supreme power in all questions of legality of a sentence, jurisdiction or competency.
It wanted the element of legality, or at least of formality, which distinguished both these bodies.
The opinion of all the judges taken at the time was in favour of the legality of this procedure.

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