Legal-term Sentence Examples

An isolated use of the word " catholic " as a secular legal term survives in Scots law; a catholic creditor is one whose debt is secured over several or over all of the subjects belonging to the debtor.

The nature of the engagements to go and work on the plantations was not fully explained to them, and they were hired for periods exceeding the legal term.

On their return both generals were unsuccessfully accused of having retained their command beyond the legal term.

When industries are taken without payment to the property owner, it has a certain legal term.

Abandonment is a legal term describing the failure of a non-custodial parent to provide support to his or her children according to the terms approved by a court of law.

Liability is the legal term used to refer to being responsible for an accident.

There was much speculation about the meaning of that word, but Zellweger claimed it was simply the legal term and wasn't intended as an indictment of Chesney's character.