legal impediment
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflegalandimpediment
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legal
adjective
uk/ˈliː.ɡəl/us/ˈliː.ɡəl/
connected with ...
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impediment
noun[C]
uk/ɪmˈped.ɪ.mənt/us/ɪmˈped.ə.mənt/
something that makes progress, movement, or achieving something difficult ...
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(Definition oflegalandimpedimentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The ilmuhaber is never fully transcribed, but the record invariably tells us that it guaranteed that the bride had nolegalimpedimentto matrimony.
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In fact, many of the kadi rulings were no more than marriage licences of a kind, documents certifying that, for a given person, there was nolegalimpedimentto marriage.
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What can the law do when nolegalimpedimentexists?
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We shall not approve the premises for use as a bail hostel unless we are satisfied that there is nolegalimpediment.
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There is nolegalimpedimentto a minor entering into a tenancy.
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Furthermore, we must ask: why is this one offence of remarriage alegalimpediment?
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Is there not alegalimpedimentas well?
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The intention of the new clause is to remove anylegalimpedimentto the operation of pre-clearance arrangements.
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Nolegalimpedimentshould get in the way, allowing cases to be dragged out before the courts.
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But it has recently been suggested that there may be alegalimpedimentto this practice.
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We recognise that there is nolegalimpediment.
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There is nolegalimpedimentto this.
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I was astounded by his answer that there was nolegalimpediment, and that it was just another arbitrary decision.
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We do not believe that section 28 provides anylegalimpedimentto teachers to tackle bullying.
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Subject to there being nolegalimpediment, as to either content or timing, we propose to publish that report.
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There is nolegalimpedimentto prevent any private landowner from selling his large crofting trusts if he wishes to do so.
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At present, there is alegalimpedimentagainst marriages being carried out anywhere else.
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Does he also agree that there is nolegalimpedimentto his publishing it before he takes any decisions on it?
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But circumstances might obviously have arisen in which, in the absence of anylegalimpediment, they would have had no real option in the matter.
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So we have jumped straight from what might be an objection to alegalimpedimentto the marriage.
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