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How to use legality in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Legality means lawfulness. Example: “The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.”

More sentences with legality

  • The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.From the entry jettison
  • Dobbs demolished a federal right to abortion, and its legality currently rests with each state.2023 July 6, Sarah Boden, “A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode”, in NPR, archived from the…. From the entry Dobbs
  • A judge, more freely than a jury, can exercise discretion uncouched in technical legalities.1968, Loyola University of Los Angeles law review: Volumes 1-3. From the entry uncouched
  • They will understep and overstep the bounds of propriety, and even of legality.1967, The Phi Delta Kappan - Volume 49, Issues 1-10, page 282. From the entry understep
  • It lent politics both legitimacy and legality.2002, Abdolkarim Soroush, ʻAbd al-Karīm Surūsh, Mahmoud Sadri, Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam, page 60. From the entry presecular
  • I was a little fuzzy on the legalities of takesy-backsies when used as a legal defense in such cases as cold-blooded murder.2016 November, J.R. Ripley, chapter 28, in Beignets, Brides and Bodies (The Maggie Miller Mysteries; 2), Sutton, London: Severn House…. From the entry takesy-backsies
  • At the time of writing the halts have been reprieved due to doubts as to the legality of the withdrawal of services.1960 August, L. Hyland, “The Irish Scene”, in Trains Illustrated, page 468. From the entry skeleton
  • Yet first, the anonymous rabbis and students begin the sequence of explorations in legality of marriage between half-free people by using more general rules of betrothal.2015, Ernst van den Hemel, Asja Szafraniec, Words: Religious Language Matters. From the entry half-free
  • This conclusion is noteworthy given that the European Court has in the past adopted a deferential if not supine approach when assessing the legality of derogations under Article 15.2009 July, Mark Elliott, “Torture, Deportation and Extra-judicial Detention: Instruments of the ‘War on Terror’”, in Cambridge Law…. From the entry supine
  • According to one recent audit reported in The Washington Post, among 49 privatized contracts, three out of five were awarded noncompetitively, lacked oversight, and raised questions of legality.2007 January 16, “Tracking Outsourced Bonanzas”, in New York Times. From the entry noncompetitively
  • They showed little remorse in using this power to its full extent, against each other, against smaller producers and against the laboring poor, including strong-arm tactics of no legality.2002, Simon Szreter, “The State of Social Capital”, in Theory and Society, volume 31, number 5, page 597. From the entry not a pretty sight
  • To cite another obvious case, there can be few things more syncretic than Roman Catholic canon law, where the doctrine of a Galilean peasant was built into Roman imperial legality.2013, Néstor O. Míguez, “1: The Nomadismo of the Popular and the Religious”, in Emily Everett, transl., edited by Joerg Rieger, Across…. From the entry syncretic
  • For the most part, however, the Gestapo did not loot; they gave a note of hand for everything they took, for they revelled in the intense legality of their actions.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 768. From the entry note of hand
  • To these men , concerned with the dangers of anarchy and “demagocracy,” constitutional democracy was attractive in that it combined the principle of popular sovereignty with a concentration on legality.1963, Ruth Thomas McVey, Indonesia, page 314. From the entry demagocracy

Meaning of legality

  1. noun Lawfulness.
  2. noun A dice game; the same as chuck-a-luck.

Full definition of legality

Questions about legality in a sentence

How do you use legality in a sentence?
Legality is used as a noun. For example: “The maritime court spent weeks reviewing the legality of the cargo jettison during the storm.”
What is a short sentence with legality?
“It lent politics both legitimacy and legality.”
What does legality mean?
Legality means lawfulness.

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