Adjective

(en adjective)

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

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Having its basis in the law.

Being allowed or prescribed by law.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)

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(informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.

Adjective

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(legal) Not legally permitted to make a will, as by reason of being under the age of majority or mentally incompetent.

* 1838 , S. Toller and F. Whitmarsh, The Law of Executors and Administrators , 7th ed., Saunders & Benning (London), ch. 1: Of Wills and Codicils, p. 11,

Outlaws also, though merely in civil cases, are intestable , in respect to their personal property, while their outlawry subsists.