legal right Meaning of "legal right"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a right based in law

Usage(s):

  1. Now we have a decision of a Supreme Tribunal whose members are probably all Catholics, denying to the Rabbinate the legal right to refuse a Catholic conversion to Judaism.
  2. Chinese citizens have a legal right to protest, but they must first apply for permission from their local Public Security Bureau.
  3. A child stands in court, and demands the legal right never to have existed.
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