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

Instead it is building a pub, as its licence comes with the legal right to operate an off-sales section.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 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

The Supreme Court did not reach the merits of the case, ruling instead that the plaintiffs lacked the legal right even to file the lawsuit.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander