legality

Roget category 963

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.5. Moral institutions

#963. Legality

noun

legality — legitimacy, legitimateness.
legislature — law, code, corpus juris [Lat.], constitution, pandect^†, charter, enactment, statute, rule — canon etc. (precept) 697 — ordinance, institution, regulation — bylaw, byelaw — decree etc. (order) 741 — ordonnance^† — standing order — plebiscite etc. (choice) 609.
legal process — form, formula, formality — rite, arm of the law — habeas corpus — fieri facias [Lat.].
[Science of law] jurisprudence, nomology^† — legislation, codification.
equity, common law — lex [Lat.], lex nonscripta [Lat.] — law of nations, droit des gens [Fr.], international law, jus gentium [Lat.] — jus civile [Lat.] — civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law — lex mercatoria [Lat.].
constitutionalism, constitutionality — justice etc. 922.
[institution for deciding questions of law] court, tribunal etc. 966.
[person who presides at a court or tribunal] judge etc. 967.
[specialist in questions of law] lawyer, attorney, legal counsel etc. 968.

verb

legalize — enact, ordain — decree etc. (order) 741 — pass a law, enact a regulation — legislate — codify, formulate — regulate.

adjective

legal, legitimate — according to law — vested, constitutional, chartered, legalized — lawful etc. (permitted) 760 — statutable^†, statutory — legislatorial, legislative — regulatory, regulated.

adverb

legally etc. adj. — in the eye of the law — de jure [Lat.].

phrase

ignorantia legis neminem excusat [Lat.], ignorance of the law is no excuse — where law ends tyranny begins" [Earl of Chatham].

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