(law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong

One that strives after an inheritance.

Alternative form of pseudolegality

(law) A perspective under which criminal law and law enforcement are seen as unresponsive or indifferent to public safety, and instead serve primarily to exclude disfavored communities from society.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see legal, consequence. / A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.

plural of legal effect

plural of legal consequence

A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things. / The having any influence on the legal state of things, the being legally in force.

Legal technology, the use of technology (such as automation software and algorithms) to help in legal services.

plural of Legarda