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Definition of Legal power

1. Noun. (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law. "Courts having jurisdiction in this district"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Power

Literary usage of Legal power

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"A prohibition, therefore, against the exercise of a legal power, is an annihilation of the power ... Hotr can a legal power exist which it is unlawful to ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Masses cannot be made definitely as such except to incorporated churches or other corporations having legal power to take property for such purposes. ..."

3. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... which, having sailed in September or October, with about 400 convicts, without any legal power for consigning them to bondage, gave occasion for the act ..."

4. Report of the Trial of James H. Peck: Judge of the United States District by James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury, United States Congress. Senate (1833)
"... that the question of legal power in this case, ia a question on which the most enlightened men of the profession may honestly differ in opinion; ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"How can a legal power exist, which it is unlawful to use, or a legal right, which cannot be exercised ? ... A legal power is a right to do certain things. ..."

6. Cases on the Law of Torts by Francis Hermann Bohlen (1915)
"As every man has a legal power to prosecute his claims in a court of law and justice, no matter by what motives of malice he may be actuated in doing so, ..."

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