not legal
Example Sentences
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“The right to assistance of counsel and the correlative right to dispense with a lawyer’s help are not legal formalisms,” the court added.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
This rule to keep a company from adding a lot of money to the final bill is designed to prevent fraud, so what your moving company pulled was probably not legal.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 23, 2026
The prosecutor’s office noted that substantiated and unsubstantiated are terms used by the Sheriff’s Department for “administrative purposes,” not legal outcomes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025
The judge adjourned Brohiri's sentencing until December after raising concerns over whether the case against him began with a lay prosecutor after rail firms were warned this was not legal.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
He would marry Cleopatra, even though marriage between a Roman and a foreigner was not legal.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
