legal argument
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandargument
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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(Definition oflegalandargumentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoflegal argument
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Common sense and political judgement are invaluable to this effect, as a perfectly draftedlegalargumentmay very well be politically impossible.
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The main proposition is that compromise is an important pattern of praxis regulating the crystallisation of alegalargument.
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The play of political andlegalargument, it seems, must brim over with forgetfulness.
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The backing provides authority for the warrant and in alegalargumentis typically a reference to a statute or a precedent case.
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Alegalargumentasserting delegative laws and necessity and urgency decrees to be unconstitutional was interpreted as disastrous for the future of the economic plan.
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The basic components of arguments (undercutters, rebutters, exceptions etc.) are labelled with syntactic sugar to indicate the role taken in thelegalargument.
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It follows that alegalargumentcan never be refuted by a moral principle nor yet by any empirical fact.
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Inlegalargument, by contrast, it is acceptable to appeal to the authority of the settled law and, in some instances, to scholarly analysis of it.
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Channellinglegalargumentalong some lines, but not others, and serving as the mandatory site of aspiring lawyers' apprenticeships, the medieval inns endowed the common law with its underlying coherence.
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Dworkin then contends that these legal positivist commitments yield a grossly inaccurate picture of whatlegalargumentand disagreement is like.
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There is no moral orlegalargumentwhich will make us change the rules for joining now at the end.
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I accept thelegalargumentthat, strictly speaking, the unequal treatment of what is different does not amount to discrimination.
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Perhaps each of those reasons for claiming compensation would not be a matter for considerablelegalargument, but it does not strike me that way.
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No doubt we could discuss thatlegalargument.
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That seems to me in itself to give any amount of room for evasion andlegalargument.
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This might develop into a difficultlegalargument.
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He wishes to turn it into a very quiet-spoken,legalargument, so that the fewer who follow the argument the better for him.
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I do not want to become too involved in what is obviously alegalargument.
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It is a matter that could lead to alegalargument.
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