legal system
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- noun
- /ˈliːɡəl ˈsɪstəm/
- Formal
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sistema jurídico
- The legal system is designed to ensure that everyone receives fair treatment under the law.
- courts and legal systems
- law and legal systems
- strengthen the legal system
It's got a great legal system, it's got a great policing system.
- It's got a great legal system, it's got a great policing system.
- But what troubles me learning about the US legal system is that it's not rights based.
- I certainly think we want to have a legal system that prosecutes violent crime.
- Well, then we have a legal system that can deal with appeals of that sort.
- That man is not worth you having to face the legal system because that moment got the best of you.
- That's America and what he's reduced us to today with this mockery of our legal system.
- And one of them was reckoning and reconciliation, realizing that our criminal legal system has done great harm.
- Some of those are actually in the legal system as prosecutors, district attorneys, judges.
- Our entire legal system is built on the assumption that all individuals have adequate representation.
- So it's not, it's not a legal system which to which the US will submit.
- And that's biggest employer of this whole country is the legal system.
- But that's that's a real issue that people run into in the legal system.
- We know that I, I love the idea of having a very legal system for people to get into the country.
- Government, religion, community law, the legal system, everything is based on storytelling.
Examples
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You have any idea what the French legal system is like?
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We have confidence in the British legal system coming to a just conclusion.
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What does that mean for him now, for the legal system and for America, meaning the rest of us?
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I feel like this brings up very, very big questions about our legal system and how our legal system should work.
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So actually the, you know, this is just how the federal legal system works that we have.
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I do believe my work has created change and has value, but the legal system is not where I want to do it.
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I believe our legal system can work, and most of the time, it does.
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The legal system is supposed to protect people like me.
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Unfortunately, the legal system has to deal with it all the time.
Fiction book (1998) -
This evening, the people of Florida have had an opportunity to participate in our new legal system.
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Morphology
The meaning 'system of rules and institutions for law' is directly and compositionally derived from 'legal' (pertaining to law) + 'system' (a formal set of rules or procedures). This adjective+noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Legal system is a simple picture: legal means law and system means connected parts like judges, courts, and written rules working together. Imagine these parts deciding cases and keeping order, so that's why the phrase means the set of rules and organizations a country uses 'to apply the law'.