legal

英 ['li?g(?)l] 美['ligl]

反義詞

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副詞:?legally;

legal 法律的

來自拉丁語legis,法，法律，來自PIE*leg,選擇，收集，詞源同collect.引申詞義收集的規則，法規，法律。

legal: legal: [16] The Latin term for a ‘law’ was lex. From its stem form leg- come English legal, legislator [17] (which goes back to a Latin compound meaning literally ‘one who proposes a law’), and legitimate [15]. Loyal is a doublet of legal, acquired via Old French rather than directly from Latin. Another derivative of legwas the Latin verb lēgāre ‘depute, commission, bequeath’, which has given English colleague, college, delegate [14], legacy [14], and legation [15].
=> colleague, college, delegate, legacy, loyal
legal (adj.): mid-15c. "of or pertaining to the law," from Middle French légal or directly from Latin legalis "legal, pertaining to the law," from lex (genitive legis) "law," possibly related to legere "to gather," on notion of "a collection of rules" (see lecture (n.)).

Sense of "permitted by law" is from 1640s. Related: Legally. The Old French form was leial, loial (see leal, loyal). Legal tender is from 1740.

1. But legal experts are not sure if such a charge can stick.: 但法律專家們不能肯定這一指控是否成立。

4. Two leading law firms are to prepare legal actions against tobacco companies.: 兩家很有名的律師事務所準備向煙草公司提起訴訟。

5. We are taking advice on legal steps to recover the money.: 我們正在就追回該款項所需的法律程序咨詢律師。