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LEGAL RELATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does legal relation mean?
• LEGAL RELATION (noun)
The noun LEGAL RELATION has 1 sense:
1. a professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)
Familiarity information: LEGAL RELATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A professional relation that is regulated by law (as between a lawyer and a client)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("legal relation" is a kind of...):
professional relation (the relation that exists when one person requests and is granted professional help from a qualified source)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "legal relation"):
fiduciary relation (the legal relation that exists when one person justifiably places reliance on another whose aid or protection is sought in some matter)
Context examples
The legal relation in which a person or group entity has a financial interest in, dominion of, or control over an object or property.
(Ownership, NCI Thesaurus)
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