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Definition of Legally
1. Adverb. By law; conforming to the law. "We are lawfully wedded now"
2. Adverb. In a legal manner. "He acted legally"
Definition of Legally
1. adv. In a legal manner.
Definition of Legally
1. Adverb. As permitted by law; not contrary to law. ¹
2. Adverb. From a legal perspective. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legally
1. in a lawful manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legally
Literary usage of Legally
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"And at the present writing no pious foundation is legally feasible in France,
because there is in the Church no personality legally qualified to receive ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Government by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, Albert Bushnell Hart (1914)
"A convention, held in October, 1865, declared that secession had never legally
existed, and passed an ordinance against slavery. ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"W. Clarke, bibliog Soc Hygiene 3:75-90 Ja '17 When is a man legally sober?
CAH Bart- lett. Am Law R 52:409-24 My '18 See also Beer: Liquor problem; ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"... was thereby legally constituted a public highway, I thought it a mere prejudice;
but, ... legally ..."
5. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"Whatever contracts therefore he engages in, no other power in the kingdom can
legally delay, resist or annul. And yet, lest this plentitude of authority ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"There U nothing whatever in the instrument to show that if it had been supposed
this direction to the assignees could not legally be followed, ..."
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