Synonyms for legality
liˈgæl ɪ tile·gal·i·ty

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1. legalitynoun

   Antonyms:
   illegality

2. legalitynoun

   Antonyms:
   illegality

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1. legality

   In its governmental relations, human or divine, justice is the giving to every person exactly what he deserves, not necessarily involving any consideration of what any other may deserve; equity (the quality of being equal) is giving every one as much advantage, privilege, or consideration as is given to any other; it is that which is equally right or just to all concerned; equity is equal justice and is thus a close synonym for fairness and impartiality, but it has a philosophical and legal precision that those words have not. In legal proceedings cases arise for which the law has not adequately provided, or in which general provisions, just in the main, would work individual hardship. The system of equity, devised to supply the insufficiencies of law, deals with cases "to which the law by reason of its universality can not apply." "Equity, then, ... is the soul and spirit of all law; positive law is construed and rational law is made by it." Blackstone bk. iii, ch. 27, p. 429. In personal and social relations justice is the rendering to every one what is due or merited, whether in act, word, or thought; in matters of reasoning, or literary work of any kind, justice is close, faithful, unprejudiced, and unbiased adherence to essential truth or fact; we speak of the justice of a statement, or of doing justice to a subject. Integrity, rectitude, right, righteousness and virtue denote conformity of personal conduct to the moral law, and thus necessarily include justice, which is giving others that which is their due. Lawfulness is an ambiguous word, meaning in its narrower sense mere legality, which may be very far from justice, but in its higher sense signifying accordance with the supreme law of right, and thus including perfect justice. Justness refers rather to logical relations than to practical matters; as, we speak of the justness of a statement or of a criticism. See JUDGE, n.

   Synonyms:
   equity, fair play, fairness, faithfulness, honor, impartiality, integrity, justice, justness, law, lawfulness, rectitude, right, righteousness, rightfulness, truth, uprightness, virtue

   Antonyms:
   dishonesty, favoritism, inequity, injustice, partiality, unfairness, unlawfulness, unreasonableness, untruth, wrong

   Preposition:
   The justice of the king; to or for the oppressed.

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1. legalitynoun

   lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute

   Antonyms:
   illegality

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1. • Lawfulness

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1. legalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   lawfulness, conformity to law

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1. legalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   lawfulness, legitimacy

   Antonyms:
   illegality

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1. List of paraphrases for "legality":

   lawfulness, legitimacy, permissibility, regularity, law

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1. Barbara Underwood:

   As our investigation reveals, the Trump Foundation was little more than a checkbook for payments from Mr. Trump or his businesses to nonprofits, regardless of their purpose or legality, that is not how private foundations should function.

2. Eugene Kaspersky:

   Our company has never conducted any secret campaign to trick competitors into generating false positives to damage their market standing, such actions are unethical, dishonest and their legality is at least questionable.

3. Carla Sands:

   The issue here is not one of legality, it’s about morality. The fetuses that they are operating on are human beings who had their lives ahead of them. Not one dime of our tax dollars should go to this research, and those conducting this research should be held accountable.

4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   We will not solve the refugee problem completely, we need, among other things, further talks with Turkey for that, only with Turkey we can switch illegality to legality. It is very important that the (European) Commission discusses further the migration agenda with Turkey.

5. Twitter Inc:

   While Twitter is striving to comply with the 2021 Rules, Twitter reserves its right to challenge the legality, validity... of the Rules.