legal effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A particular state of the rights in consequence of a defined state or course of things.
  2. The condition of having any influence on the legal state of things, of being legally in force.

Word forms

legal effect legal effects

Synonyms

legal consequence legal effect and consequence legal force
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