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Legal power

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jurisdictionnounThe power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
legalitynounLawfulness.
legal systemnoun(law) The process by which a governing body enforces the law and legal procedures.
legallyAs permitted by law; not contrary to law.
legalisedverb
legalitiesnounLawfulness.
legal codenoun(law) All the official laws of a country or state
legalisationnoun(British spelling) Alternative spelling of legalization. [The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.]
legalistnounOne who adheres to legalism, in its various senses.
authoritynoun(uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right.
major powernouna state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world
legalisticOf a person, following the letter of the law.
legal personnoun(law) An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.
power politicsnounA form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression.
legal statusthe status or position held by an entity as determined by the law.
statutory lawnoun(law, countable) A law enacted by a legislative body.
world powernounA nation or state so powerful that it can influence world affairs.
juridicalPertaining to the law or rule of law, legal; judicial, related to the administration of justice (as to jurisprudence, or to the function of a judge or court).
powerfulnessnounThe quality of being powerful.
legaliseverbNon-Oxford British English standard spelling of legalize. [To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.]

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