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pseudo-legality

pseudo-legality is the alternative form of pseudolegality.

Meaning of pseudolegality

Noun

pseudolegality (uncountable)

  1. The appearance of legality of something that is not actually legal; The use of courts, police, or legal procedures to accomplish pseudolegal results.
    • Legal theorists began asking in the 1950s how the legal system in the GDR, characterized as it was by a one-party state armed with extraordinary powers, differed from the pseudolegality of National Socialist Germany.2003, Peter C. Caldwell, Dictatorship, State Planning, and Social Theory in the German Democratic Republic, page 12

Questions about pseudo-legality

What is pseudo-legality the alternative form of?
Pseudo-legality is the alternative form of pseudolegality.

Words near pseudo-legality in the dictionary

  1. Pseudo-Isidorian
  2. pseudo-isochromatic
  3. pseudo-Jewish
  4. pseudo-latinism
  5. pseudo-latinisms
  6. pseudo-legality
  7. pseudo-lesbian
  8. pseudo-lesbians
  9. pseudo-liberation
  10. pseudo-liberations
  11. pseudo-life

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