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legal effects

legal effects is the plural of legal effect.

Meaning of legal effect

Noun

legal effect (plural legal effects)

  1. A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.
  2. The condition of having any influence on the legal state of things, of being legally in force.
    • 16 CFR § 698.2
    Synonyms:
    legal force

Questions about legal effects

What is legal effects the plural of?
Legal effects is the plural of legal effect.

Words near legal effects in the dictionary

  1. legal duty
  2. legal eagle
  3. legal eagles
  4. legal effect
  5. legal effect and consequence
  6. legal effects
  7. legal effects and consequences
  8. legal entities
  9. legal entity
  10. legal fiction
  11. legal fictions

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