legal right

Example Sentences

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She waived her legal right to anonymity in her own trial, saying: "I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too."

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Given this arrangement, I have a legal right to 50% of the profit from the sale.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

This fight isn’t over whether donors have a legal right to require grants and specify recipients, because they don’t.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 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

I understood that she had the legal right to sell it; what I didn’t understand was— “Why?”

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman