legal right
Example Sentences
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I don’t see what good can come out of giving her $50,000 that you are perfectly within your legal right to keep.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
“We have a legal right to rescue these animals,” he said before being detained.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Hezbollah, for its turn, condemned the attacks, adding in a statement that it had the “natural and legal right to resist occupation and respond to its attacks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
"He has a legal right to come into the country and to perform in this country," Benn added.
From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026
It made marriage a whim of the master rather than a legal right.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
