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  • Etymology: Middle French, from Latin legalis, from leg -, lex law

    Think Progress » The Gorelick Myth 2005

  • A. fraxinifolia, A. nitida Mart, A. frondosa, A. legalis and A. anthelmia (Vell.)

    Chapter 35 1990

  • Hence adoption, under the title cognatio legalis, or "legal relationship", was recognized by the Church as a diriment impediment of marriage.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Christi interventum cum hominibus pepigit, non in eo consistere, quod per fidem, quatenus meritum Christi apprehendit, coram Deo justificemur et salvemur; sed in hoc, quod Deus, abrogata perfectae obedientiae legalis exactione, fidem ipsam et fidei obedientiam imperfectam pro perfecta legis obedientia reputet, et vitae aeternae praemio gratiose dignam censeat. '

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • _Laian_, the French _loyal_, but not the Latin _legalis_.

    Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

  • The presumption upon which acquisition by usucapion is founded is, therefore, not merely its conformity to right as allowed and just, but also the presumption of its being right (praesumtio juris et de jure), and its being assumed to be in accordance with compulsory laws (suppositio legalis).

    The Science of Right 1790

  • Institutio legalis: or, an introduction to the study and practice of the laws of England, as now regulated and amended by several late statutes ....

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • Studii legalis ratio: or, Directions for the study of the law, under these heads: the qualifications for nature means method time and place of the study.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • Essex Yeoman teneri et firmiter obligarS Abrahamo Page de Baddowe magna in Comif predict Taylor in vigin? lib bouse et legalis mone?

    Suffolk deeds 1653

  • Testamentj Josephj weld de Roxbury nuper defunc? in mille libris bone et legalis monete solvend eisdem supervisoribus alicuj veil aliquibus eorum ad vsum Barbara weld vidue p'dic'E.

    Suffolk deeds 1653

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