legal entity

Example Sentences

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Your mother is legally entitled to keep the money.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 17, 2026

Lady Chief Justice Baroness Carr and four other judges said that the government's policy on banning terrorism groups meant the home secretary had been legally entitled to decide the group should be proscribed.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026

Paul Volcker, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and Janet Yellen all stepped down when their chair terms expired, even though they were legally entitled to stay.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

“Over and over again, we have seen farmworkers go without the heat safety protections they are legally entitled to,” said Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers union.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2025

But how explain this enormous contradiction between the rights which he is legally entitled to and those which he actually possesses?

From The Ballotless Victim of One-Party Governments The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 16 by Grimké, Archibald Henry