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Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.

Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

r advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).

The state or quality of being letter of the law.

The act of making legal.

To make legal.

In a legal manner.

, contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. Bp. Burnet.

The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act.

To make or declare illegal or unlawful.

In a illegal manner; unlawfully.

Illegality, unlawfulness.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

Exceeding the limits of law. [R.]

A genus of Australian birds which includes the brush turkey. See Brush turkey.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in doing; sufficiency of strength, skill, resources, etc.; -- in the plural, faculty, talent. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren…

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

o steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

To own as genuine; to assent to, as a legal instrument, to give it validity; to avow or admit in legal form; as, to acknowledgea deed.