Definition of Legal representative

1. Noun. A personal representative with legal standing (as by power of attorney or the executor of a will).

Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Generic synonyms: Personal Representative

Lexicographical Neighbors of Legal Representative

legal opinion
legal ouster
legal pad
legal pads
legal person
legal persons
legal philosophy
legal positivism
legal power
legal principle
legal proceeding
legal profession
legal recourse
legal relation
legal representation
legal representative (current term)
legal residence
legal right
legal separation
legal status
legal system
legal tender
legal tenders
legal term
legal transfer
legalese
legaleses
legalisation
legalisations
legalise

Literary usage of Legal representative

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"S arty in whose favor it was rendered, or, if end, his legal representative, is a necessary party. To a motion to set aside a judgment the (a) A motion was ..."

2. The diplomatic protection of citizens abroad or the law of international claims by Edwin Montefiore Borchard (1915)
"Who May Act as legal representative. The question as to who may properly represent a claimant, during life and after death, has occasionally come before ..."

3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"legal representative case there be no child, then to the next of kindred of equal degree of or unto the Intestate and their legal representatives as ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"He is one, also, who takes by representation; and In wills and settlements the terms "representative" and "legal representative" are frequently held to mean ..."

5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1913)
"be a competent witness therein when the adverse party is an executor, administrator, or legal representative of a deceased person, a person interested in a ..."

6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"'Die question arising in this court upon the record is, who is the "legal representative" of Guyard as to the lots in dispute, ..."

7. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1893)
"A "legal representative," in the most extensive acceptation of those words, is one who legally or lawfully represents another in any matter or thing of ..."

8. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1911)
"After describing the chain of events, and proving himself the legal representative of John Jarrott, the petition then proceeds: "And your petitioner has ..."

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