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The cohabiting of a man and a woman who are not legally married; the state of being a concubine.

In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed. Nothing would indue them to acknowledge that [such] an assembly . . . was constitutionally a Parliament. Macaulay.

lawful summons, or to the rules and orders of court, as a refusal to appear in court when legally summoned.

o any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally. When a bystander took a coin to get it changed, and converted it, [it was] held no larceny. Cooley.

A person proved guilty of a crime alleged against him; one legally convicted or sentenced to punishment for some crime.

the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.

One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable. An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit. Blackstone.

To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner.

To make over, or convey, legally. He has disponed . . . the whole estate. Sir W. Scott.

The person to whom any property is legally conveyed.

One who legally transfers property from himself to another.

deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it. Greenleaf. Circumstantial evidence, Conclusiv…

Too put to death illegally; to kill. [Obs.] Shak.

Out of or beyond the proper authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction; not legally required. "An extrajudicial opinion." Hallam. -- Ex`tra*ju*di"cial*ly, adv.

The price of grain, as legally fixed, in the counties of Scotland, for the current year.

tion shall, for aught he knows, the next minute supervene. Dr. H. More. For anything that legally appears to the contrary, it may be a contrivance to fright us. Swift.